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I’d really enjoy a prehensile tail, despite the adaptations required for trousers and chairs. Also, I was enough a nerd growing up that other kids would have pulled it.
i suspect there would be adaptations to a variety of other things like sleep, bipedal locomotion, defecation, etc.
Sleep is easy: sleep on your side.
The rest sound like non-issues to me.
time to bring it back then, alongside horn implants, and third tit.
Third nipples are quite common believe it or not. Most people with them believe they’re moles.
If we're doing germline edits, the obvious thing to fix first is vitamin synthesis. There are a bunch of useful things other living things synthesise from first principles, and we don't so we need to eat something that has already synthesised the thing we wanted, and we can't cook or preserve it in any way that destroys the material we needed or it won't work. That's what scurvy is, a tree or a lizard just makes its…
While it will become possible to restore auto-synthesis functionality, there are unknown risks associated with germ line edits reengineering Vit C or essential AA synthesis.
It's currently illegal to do so in 70 countries. Specific, very positive beneficial edits that protect against infections, malnutrition, or pathological diseases should be allowed.
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Rarely is human genetics this simple. For ages geneticists thought large swaths of the human genome were "junk" and over time more and more of it has been proven to have a purpose or function, it just wasn't readily apparent for various reasons. Think of the human genome as sort of the ultimate dependency hell...
Nature does not refactor. There's the laryngeal nerve somewhere in the neck of mammals that has to go around a blood vessel. On Giraffes, this runs all the way down the neck, around said blood vessel, than back up, all that just to connect two places in the upper neck that are inches apart. Evolution writes the ultimate spaghetti code. More info: https://berto-meister.blogspot.com/2011/08/unintelligent-des...
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But imagine if your tail was hairless :/
Imagine if it was covered in pubes. That would definitely be worse.
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wings
Wings are so fascinating. Flying animals have their whole body, from their brain, digestive system, down to their bones internal structure and function [0] optimized for flight. That's where we see species giving up flight ability to get a stronger body, and I wonder what it would take for us to do the reverse to be able to use these wings in any way. [0] https://www.montananaturalist.org/blog-post/avian-adaptation..…
I'm not a furry, but I'm open to the possibility of getting that back!
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i suspect there would be adaptations to a variety of other things like sleep, bipedal locomotion, defecation, etc.
I suspect our tailed ancestors slept, locomoted, and defecated.