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Between this, my stripes, and my tail… all things I have genes for, but no activation…
I’m kinda pissed, being human could be far less cringe
Behold, a feathered biped
Plato is gonna be fuckin pissed
This sounds like a fun PhD project
No funding. Less fun
I’m good on the feathers I read the goosebumps book about learning to fly and it gave me a preview of my trypophobia when R.L. Stine described the feathers growing out of the main characters skin
ETA: it was “chicken chicken” not “how I learned to fly”
I’ll hold off too because some feathers grow straight from the bones. Eek
I on the other hand am all that is man and will be taking the feathers because I want to look fabulous
Yeah, just leaves more plumage for me to dazzle the ladies with. Have fun not passing on your genes because i have the superior plumage.
Why would I dye my hair when plumage is an option?
Huh? I just read this book and that was not in there. The kids just drank a potion and then could fly, there was no outward difference to them. Maybe you are mixing up a different one, like the chicken one? We just started that so idk how it goes. The cover has the girl as a chicken though.
Ahh I checked the synopsis and you’re right I definitely got it mixed up with another. I need to find it now.
ETA:Definitely the chicken one jeez it just gave me goosebumps
MF walking one way into getting a pile of teratomas
TIL evolution is bad at deleting legacy code
We just comment it out in case we ever need it again.
Stunning creatures, sea lions.
Wonderful plumage.
Fierce Creatures (1997)
There’s certainly something stunning and wonderful in that picture all right
Her shoes
I also have a thing for short guys in glasses!
I want the damn feathers for the social aspect! If we were allowed to preen each other, the world would be a better place!
What does that even mean, you have like “four letters” and dna strands of millions long. Like how selective do you have to be. I’m sure you can basically write anything that way.
Are there entire chunks that are inactive that would give feathers, that at some point gave feathers to our ancestors?
I recall that scientists reactivated chicken genes for teeth and grew a toothed chook
All things DNA is full of code that doesn’t get activated and is just passed on anyways
Gene expression is what they mean by “activated”
Basically think of it like having a library of instruction books and only grabbing a few of them to do the project that needs done.
I agree, this seems pretty misleading. And are there any other feathered animals other than on the dinosaur branch? Because if not, how should the feather DNA even end up in mammalian DNA?? Or maybe feathers are produced by very common differently used genes? But in this case this would be even more nonsensical…
Quick someone get CRSIPR therapy
Now go into a forrest with flint and boom
infinite ammo
