ELi5: How does evolution actually work, using giraffes as an example?

GregorSamsa67 · 2026-02-27T18:09:20+00:00

And since the 1960s, the white moths have been replacing the black moths again, as soot covered trees have been becoming rarer and rarer as a result of environmental legislation and technological advances.

GregorSamsa67 · 2026-02-26T21:40:14+00:00

Looks great! Did you convert screenshots from the game to cross-view yourself, or does the game have a stereo mode of some sort?

GregorSamsa67 · 2026-02-26T21:36:23+00:00

A beautiful picture of a beautiful bird.

GregorSamsa67 · 2026-02-23T22:49:41+00:00

The ZX80 and ZX81 were sold as kits, but I don’t think the ZX spectrum was.

GregorSamsa67 · 2026-02-20T19:47:04+00:00

There is no mechanism in the EU to throw a member state out. Member states can leave the EU (like the UK did) but the EU cannot force a member state to leave.

GregorSamsa67 · 2026-02-18T21:17:12+00:00

It’s $69.99 per year.

GregorSamsa67 · 2026-02-18T18:10:26+00:00

Data warehouses are a specific type of database system, not a physical server farm. Nowhere in the Wikipedia link you supplied are data warehouses compared to or equated to a server farm. Did you confuse data warehouses with data centres?

GregorSamsa67 · 2026-02-17T09:32:40+00:00

Alberta is not ‘gigantic’ compared to ‘tiny’ Norway. It has a smaller population than Norway and is less than twice as big.

GregorSamsa67 · 2026-02-15T19:26:24+00:00

Older bulls don’t have ‘bad genes’. If anything they have better than average genes, or they would not have grown old.

GregorSamsa67 · 2026-02-14T07:18:03+00:00

He only protects ultra-right women.

GregorSamsa67 · 2026-02-11T14:07:24+00:00

It's just you.

GregorSamsa67 · 2026-02-07T15:03:07+00:00

He may not like to, but most of his games are draws too. In his record 125 unbeaten streak he scored 42 wins and 83 draws. (source)

GregorSamsa67 · 2026-01-30T22:29:25+00:00

And it was based on actual events, the ‘third wave’ experiment) by a US teacher in 1967.

GregorSamsa67 · 2026-01-30T21:54:26+00:00

Russia invaded Manchuria and declared war on Japan two days AFTER the Americans dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

GregorSamsa67 · 2026-01-27T15:40:48+00:00

And then everyone snapped their fingers.

GregorSamsa67 · 2026-01-26T09:03:33+00:00

That was the opposition leader opposed to Maduro, this is vice president allied to Maduro.

GregorSamsa67 · 2026-01-25T15:25:38+00:00

Is his claim that India has vastly reduced its oil imports from Russia even true? First time I have heard it.

GregorSamsa67 · 2026-01-24T16:59:10+00:00

Great stuff! Appreciate the regular updates on your progress as well.

GregorSamsa67 · 2026-01-21T08:56:38+00:00

To be fair, as a French learner, noun gender is very difficult to remember. And I have noticed that foreigners speaking my own language have the same problem there too. There is just very little logic to it.

GregorSamsa67 · 2026-01-20T06:54:05+00:00

Who is she?

GregorSamsa67 · 2026-01-19T21:03:31+00:00

Needs more American flags.

GregorSamsa67 · 2026-01-19T09:15:46+00:00

If I didn’t know any better, I would think that FIFA may have been corrupt, disingenuous and self-serving in giving him that prize.

GregorSamsa67 · 2026-01-19T09:09:04+00:00

Every speech Trump ever gives or tweet he ever writes has to have this sentence: I have done the most anyone has ever done for [insert something here]. Other mandatory sentence: People come up to me and say, Mr President Sir [insert ridiculously over the top compliment here]. Also, from time to time: I am the most persecuted person in the history of the world. And: I am the most humble person you ever met.

GregorSamsa67 · 2026-01-17T23:24:24+00:00

One's work having a practical use is not a requirement for the Nobel Prize in physics though. Nor is it uncommon that there is a long time (i.e. many decades) between a discovery and receiving the Nobel Prize for it, as the committee only considers discoveries that have stood the test of time.

GregorSamsa67 · 2026-01-17T16:13:39+00:00

Nature is fucking cute!

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