- dogsoahC ( @dogsoahC@lemm.ee ) English54•5 months ago
More importantly, actual evolution doesn’t change the individual. The “evolution” in Pokémon and Digimon should be called “development”.
- GenderNeutralBro ( @GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org ) English52•5 months ago
Or metamorphosis.
- dogsoahC ( @dogsoahC@lemm.ee ) English21•5 months ago
Yes, that’s better, thank you.
- AggressivelyPassive ( @agressivelyPassive@feddit.de ) English14•5 months ago
That’s actually what it’s called in German. Never thought about the implications of the “X evolved to Y” screens.
- Rinox ( @Rinox@feddit.it ) English1•5 months ago
In Italian Digimon it’s called Digievolution
- MajorHavoc ( @MajorHavoc@programming.dev ) English23•5 months ago
I adore the total lack of surprise for the ‘fridge with machine gun’ in the comments here. We all watched Digimon, apparently.
- Zoop ( @Zoop@beehaw.org ) English3•5 months ago
Right? It’s absolutely perfect and spot-on and I love it
- root_beer ( @root_beer@midwest.social ) English3•5 months ago
Hell yeah.
Pokémon: [day one] I wanna be the best Pokémon trainer the world has ever seen! [20 seasons later] Wow I got another gym badge! Pikachu is pretty decent!
Digimon: [day one] Oh this poor kitten, gotta save it from these big jerks! [end of season] Today, we must destroy God.
- nintendiator ( @nintendiator@feddit.cl ) English1•5 months ago
Digimon: [day one] Oh this poor kitten,
[midseason] kitten evolves into buff lion anthro then dies on you.
- therealjcdenton ( @therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip ) English16•5 months ago
You forgot to put the lion on two feet and to give it boxing gloves
- ArxCyberwolf ( @Snowpix@lemmy.ca ) English8•5 months ago
Nooooo! Not another fire/fighting starter!
- Ephera ( @Ephera@lemmy.ml ) English15•5 months ago
Don’t forget the part where actual evolution requires a lot of sex and dying…
- WamGams ( @WamGams@lemmy.ca ) English13•5 months ago
Modern birds almost certainly evolved directly from the Dramaeosaurus, not T. Rex, but otherwise, great meme.
- Haagel ( @Haagel@lemmings.world ) English10•5 months ago
The discovery of horizontal gene transfer implies that it’s more like a web than a tree.
"Biologist Johann Peter Gogarten suggests “the original metaphor of a tree no longer fits the data from recent genome research” therefore “biologists should use the metaphor of a mosaic to describe the different histories combined in individual genomes and use the metaphor of a net to visualize the rich exchange and cooperative effects of HGT among microbes”.
I look forward to this dinosaur = chicken colloquialism being inevitably discarded.
- Liz ( @Liz@midwest.social ) English2•5 months ago
Chickens are dinosaurs in the sense that they’re also tetrapods. A dinosaur is an evolutionary group in which all members have a common ancestor population that is distinct from the rest of the evolutionary tree. So too with tetrapods, isopods, primates, arachnids, etc. So anyway, it’s true that birds are dinosaurs, but it’s not a very useful description.
- Enkrod ( @Enkrod@feddit.de ) English1•5 months ago
How is horizontal gene transfer between microbes in any way relevant to a discussion about the ancestry of chickens that only reaches back to the dinosauria clade? Chickens are invariably a sub-group of the bigger group dinosaurs.
- Haagel ( @Haagel@lemmings.world ) English1•5 months ago
Not just microbes. HGT has been observed in carnivorous plants as well. It could be much more prevalent than we think.
- vithigar ( @vithigar@lemmy.ca ) English8•5 months ago
Why is this image muted?
- Cloudless ☼ ( @cloudless@lemmy.cafe ) English5•5 months ago
Wait… pokemon evolved from female to male??
- Rose Thorne(She/Her) ( @NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee ) English9•5 months ago
Well, there’s Azurill. That was an actual glitch that happened due to DVs being a factor for gender, if I remember correctly.
- GenderNeutralBro ( @GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org ) English5•5 months ago
That’s a puma, not a lioness.
Though you might still be right. I’m not sure if there are clear visual indicators in pumas.
- ILikeBoobies ( @ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ) English1•5 months ago
Big body = big appetite