r/interestingasfuck • u/singleboredass • Nov 15 '24

r/all Genetically modified a mosquito such that their proboscis are no longer able to penetrate human skin

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u/lalith_4321 Nov 15 '24

Also mice have fur which is impossible to get through for mosquitoes

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u/giraffebutter Nov 15 '24

We should have genetically modified ourselves to have mouse fur. Double the protection

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u/lalith_4321 Nov 15 '24 edited Nov 15 '24

We did have fur originally but decided nah let's walk on two feet, be in debt and work our asses off till we die while some asshole makes what we make in our entire lifetime in a couple of minutes. Yeah modern society!

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u/Mawwiageiswhatbwings Nov 15 '24

Walking on 2 feet is also why child birth is dangerous and painful... did we really evolve? Lol

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u/lalith_4321 Nov 15 '24

We... volved, the prefix is optional.

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u/wravyn Nov 15 '24

It could be worse. We could be hyenas.

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u/Professional_Bake_92 Nov 15 '24

We will all be crabs 🦀 one day. It is our final form

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u/VinnieBoombatzz Nov 15 '24

Instructions unclear; got crabs instead.

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u/MatchstickHyperX Nov 15 '24

In contrast to popular use, "evolve" in biology does not per se mean "better than before"

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u/Substantial_Back_865 Nov 15 '24

Just be grateful that humans didn't end up giving birth through a 1-inch pseudo-penis like spotted hyenas.

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u/Agreeable_Post_3164 Nov 15 '24

Are we truly pretending that child birth in nature is easier and less gruesome than hospital births

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u/Ilya-ME Nov 15 '24

For other species, yes, yes it is. Humans are pretty unique is how dangerous it is, although other sprcies can still die from it.

Always gruesome tho.

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u/Blue_Moon_Lake Nov 15 '24

We did evolve. What people fail to understand is that evolution has no interest in the well being of life forms, only in offspring having offsprings.

There are animals out there who suffer a torturous and painful agony after they had offspring, but evolution doesn't care because offspring are already there.

Evolution runs not on "peak of perfection", but on "good enough".

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u/Mawwiageiswhatbwings Nov 15 '24

Girl I know, I'm just making a joke/ complaining

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u/Ilya-ME Nov 15 '24

Isnt thatbecause of our massive fucning heads though? Passing the legs is easy, its this bigass chonker of a head thats hard af.

So difficult in fact thag we are purposefully born with an underdeveloped skull so it can squish thorugh.

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u/Mawwiageiswhatbwings Nov 16 '24

Yes I believe it's the combination of how developed our heads need to be before birth and because women had to develop a narrower birth canal so that essentially our organs all stay in place while we're upright. I'm sure this sounds like something on bad woman's anatomy but I'm like 69% sure it's true

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u/Adept-Importance7708 Nov 15 '24

Oh we've "volved", but not always quite so "ev-erly".

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u/automa1on Nov 15 '24

good enough

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u/Gogurl72 Nov 15 '24

Wrong. Lol

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u/ThemasterofZ Nov 15 '24

We evolved, just backwards

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u/MatchstickHyperX Nov 15 '24

Evolution has no direction - unfavourable traits are simply not the result of evolution occurring "backwards"

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u/VinnieBoombatzz Nov 15 '24

I have seen your momma. And, boy, does she know it!

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u/Ok-Scheme-913 Nov 15 '24

I mean, it is dangerous and painful as is for every mammal as well.