Man I wish we needed to be sabotaged but just in case I want to make it very clear for any four armed hotties that my genes are in fact very stealable

You can just say they have as much of a middle school definition of species as the racists, it’s true even if it’s rude

Ask 10 biologists to define species and you’ll get 12 answers, but while a species must be able to have fertile offspring it’s always linked to other traits like reproductive isolation from other groups and even more traits after that but it’s all disputed and too complicated for a forum comment.

So in the example of hominin interbreeding they’d have been separated by geography prior to the migrations and be different species as a result of that and other factors.

For example, given another ten thousand years of reproductive isolation Old and New World homo sapiens might have differentiated, or maybe not. It all depends on population sizes and whether there’s enough adaptative pressure (aka mass dying)

There’s a movement now to try and define species based on genetic similarity but I think that’s pretty fucking silly when a single mutation could, for example, make the species sterile. You’re just never going to able to define it in a mathematically useful way.

There are also plenty of tests confirming those circumstances naturally lead to nucleotides forming.

Finding them on asteroid isn’t proof of panspermia but it is evidence that life is a natural and expected feature of the universe.

There’s another study from the same team about successfully modifying the species to resist oxygen “at key moments” lol

https://www.cambridgetoday.ca/local-news/waterloo-team-engineers-bacteria-to-eat-tumours-from-the-inside-out-11917469

This article has more specific details about the research. Not to be too reductive but quorum sensing is the mechanism that typically flips an infection from passive growth into “start killing this bitch we have the numbers now”

So what they think they’ve done is create a mechanism to lets them turn the oxygen resistance on and off, but what’s going to happen is the cells that then mutate out of turning if off are going to be the simply superior organism.

I understand why they thought the mechanics check out. I don’t understand why they think they can control all the variables outside of a lab.

Beautiful game that everyone should play at some point.

And, after pondering the difficulties of navigating the complex realities of life with no chances to try again, remember that it stores your history as a browser cookie.

I see absolutely no way this can backfire

You know that editor laughed like a villain who knew they’d gotten away with their greatest crime because it was all legal and Batman can’t do shit about it

Well, they kind of do, it’s just a series of other acts that combined create the modern system and the rights they definitely have even if they are more unwritten than most of the peasants suspect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_Kingdom

Complicating it further the UK uses common law so quite a lot of their legal “code” and “rights” are mostly just vibes.

It’s the one Larson agreed to while his editor begged on hands and knees

Most Eurasians have significant neanderthal heredity. Neanderthals were far more capable than they are portrayed as in dated media and even then in the worst and least charitable of those they still had fire and spears…

Larson just showing a whole ignorant ass with this tbh.

He was nearly as ignorant as calling your political opponents genetically inferior untermensch.

Because if it’s recommended by the CDC insurance companies are obligated to pay for it and they don’t want to.

You start being at increased risk for shingles in your 40s btw.

Microtubules are also just mechanically involved in synaptic firing. If you disrupt their chemistry you disrupt the ion transfer chains throughout the entire synapse. I’m not nearly read enough on the finer details on those mechanisms and definitely not the quantum theory you seem to be referencing to offer an expert opinion but I’m really inclined to go with Occam’s Razor on this one.

Who knows though, maybe you’re right, it certainly would explain some weird behaviors most microbiologists just kind of shrug off 🤷‍♂️

Depends on your definition of thinking. If by think you mean react to their environment and possibly have some form of chemically based memory, that seems possible. Hell they have to react to the environment to maintain homeostasis. Multicellular organisms are ultimately a kind of colony of unicellular organisms if you get right down to it.

If you mean actual cognition, definitely not. There’s an indisputable difference between reacting to stimulus and considering the cause of the stimulus and the second one needs a neutral network or something like it, it’s simply too complex… Probably.

I also don’t think it’s unreasonable that an organ could affect thought patterns aka personalities, but there’s a big, big difference between your brain’s specific chemical environment they are affecting and the memories it contains.

Or it’s an eight year old

I don’t know, does it actually?

Anyone who read the actual books, speak up.

This is discrimination, it was ghosts

Saw a Tumblr comment once that maybe they didn’t, but if you’d shown them a picture they’d have been on it like a viking on a undefended village full of future slaves to kidnap and rape.

It’s gonna eat them.

Specifically, the startled birds imply it’s behind them.

Nah. All you have to do is slap him with your 2d hands and you’ll cut right through him.