• xkforce@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    They dont. It just happens that natural selection favored flowers that looked vaguely bird like and over time, flowers that looked more and more like a bird outcompeted the ones that looked less like one.

    • orphiebaby@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      What’s funny is how absurd this is. Most flowers don’t look like birds and they’re fine.

      • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        8 months ago

        This has nothing to do with natural selection. It’s just a coincidence that the buds very shortly and from a specific angle vaguely look like birds.

        Most of the images shared are probably photoshopped to enhance the effect too.

  • marcos@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    “Appear to look like”…

    I wonder what they look like if you manage to ignore the appearances.

  • 7heo@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    Why are people so unfathomably dumb, like, I’m afraid.

    • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
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      8 months ago

      Intuitively understanstanding evolution is something most people dont need so i cant really fault people for it. But yeah either trolling or actually stupid who knows.

      • grue@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        Intuitively understanstanding evolution is something most people dont need so i cant really fault people for it.

        LOL, how meta (“people haven’t evolved to understand evolution”).

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    “…how birds look like…”

    Just one of many issues with the English here.

    • what it looks like
    • how it looks

    You need to pick a lane.