• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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    11 hours ago

    Once you’ve evolved it, one more or less is basically free *. Might fail sooner in old age, but everything after procreation is an afterthought.

    * my aunt has a long neck, 3 vertebras more.

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      * my aunt has a long neck, 3 vertebras more.

      Apparently it’s really rare for mammals to evolve that without getting somthing else that’s really nasty like cancer. There was a recent video about it on SciShow or HanksChannel