Neckst theory of giraffe necks:
October 13, 2015 11:11 AM Subscribe
Yes, THAT Daily Mail... This is a great article considering it is from the Daily Mail.
A comprehensive study may have revealed how the long neck of the giraffe evolved.
I read the whole story and found it just so-so.
posted by Strange Interlude at 11:18 AM on October 13, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Strange Interlude at 11:18 AM on October 13, 2015 [1 favorite]
I've always suspected it was a chiropractor named Lamarck.
posted by dances_with_sneetches at 11:28 AM on October 13, 2015 [8 favorites]
posted by dances_with_sneetches at 11:28 AM on October 13, 2015 [8 favorites]
If you'd like to read about it somewhere other than the Daily Mail
It's easy to assume someplace else had it first, the rare examples of actual journalism in the Fail are rewritings of others' reporting (as well as much of the awful journalism).
Remember, if a stopped clock is right twice a day, a clock running in reverse is twice as often.
posted by oneswellfoop at 11:35 AM on October 13, 2015
It's easy to assume someplace else had it first, the rare examples of actual journalism in the Fail are rewritings of others' reporting (as well as much of the awful journalism).
Remember, if a stopped clock is right twice a day, a clock running in reverse is twice as often.
posted by oneswellfoop at 11:35 AM on October 13, 2015
And to think - all these years I thought it was Ford Prefect's fault.
posted by Greg_Ace at 12:44 PM on October 13, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by Greg_Ace at 12:44 PM on October 13, 2015 [2 favorites]
This seems pretty much like how evolution works. Of course you get both okapis and giraffes from a common ancester. You get orangutans and humans from a common ancestor too. Just because something works out to be an evolutionary advantage in one niche doesn't mean it wipes everything else out. Well, except for maybe the humans.
Anyway, hox genes. It's all a big hox.
posted by maryr at 2:21 PM on October 13, 2015 [4 favorites]
Anyway, hox genes. It's all a big hox.
posted by maryr at 2:21 PM on October 13, 2015 [4 favorites]
oneswellfoop: "Remember, if a stopped clock is right twice a day, a clock running in reverse is twice as often."
Huh. Never heard that expression, but I think it actually works out to four times a day.
posted by Bugbread at 6:38 PM on October 13, 2015 [1 favorite]
Huh. Never heard that expression, but I think it actually works out to four times a day.
posted by Bugbread at 6:38 PM on October 13, 2015 [1 favorite]
And if it runs backwards and it runs too fast, it'll be right even more often. I have graphs.
posted by benito.strauss at 7:39 PM on October 13, 2015
posted by benito.strauss at 7:39 PM on October 13, 2015
Huh. Never heard that expression, but I think it actually works out to four times a day.
Which is, if you work out the math, almost exactly twice as much as the stopped clock's twice a day. OSFoop FTW.
posted by five fresh fish at 9:04 PM on October 13, 2015
Which is, if you work out the math, almost exactly twice as much as the stopped clock's twice a day. OSFoop FTW.
posted by five fresh fish at 9:04 PM on October 13, 2015
benito.strauss: I have g-raphs.
FTFY.
posted by dances_with_sneetches at 11:30 AM on October 15, 2015 [2 favorites]
FTFY.
posted by dances_with_sneetches at 11:30 AM on October 15, 2015 [2 favorites]
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