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xkcd #3064: Lungfish (xkcd.com)

submitted 4 days ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to c/xkcd@lemmy.world

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I know having so many base pairs makes rebasing complicated, but you're in Bilateria, so shouldn't you at LEAST be better at using git head?

https://explainxkcd.com/3064/

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[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 4 points 4 days ago

For those that believe in fate, this is how nature creates a backup plan. Something with an enormous genome has extreme potential for interesting, potentially useful mutations.

For those that don't, yes, you're right, nature is incapable of planning ahead. And genomes can duplicate and extend at any point, there wouldn't need to be any planning in the first place.

Still kind of nice to have a known-working example though, isn't it?