• @wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee
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    1511 days ago

    I honestly would’ve thought that an orifice to release waste products came first, but I’m not an evo-devo-nist.

    • @ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org
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      911 days ago

      Yeah, the first thing the embryo of vertebrates folds into is a torus whose hole will become the digestive system. Reproductive organs come way later.

      • AnIndefiniteArticle
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        311 days ago

        Not to mention that animals with reproductive systems but that reproduced asexually evolved long before sperm.

        e.g. earthworms

    • @Manticore@lemmy.nz
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      810 days ago

      Yeah it feels like a weird way to say that humans still have vestigial signs of a cloaca. It’s understood that evolutionary ancestors did, so humans’ ancestors would need to have separated the functions during their evolution… I guess the news is that there is still genetic evidence even today.

      Alternatively, creationists can take this as a sign a creator considers butt stuff to be natural sex also 👍

      • Pup Biru
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        410 days ago

        i think the creationist response is that humans were always exactly like this and any evidence pointing to the contrary is put there by god to test us

        … but also worth a try - it’s not like they actually think about things

        • @Manticore@lemmy.nz
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          410 days ago

          God doesn’t make mistakes 😇🙏 that’s why butt stuff 🍑🤛💦 feels so good 🥴😩💯

        • @OccultIconoclast@reddthat.com
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          110 days ago

          Creationist here. I think the world was created by people, who told each other stories until their stories formed a world, and then the people lived in the world. They invented the idea of humanity by which to know themselves, and that’s where human beings come from.