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divergent evolution

2025-08-17 19:45:08.14224+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Elda King @eldaking@weirder.earth

As humans get older, their hair slowly loses pigmentation, becoming grey and then finally white.

This behavior is shared by common printers, which suggests it evolved before the last common ancestors of humans and printers diverged. However, humans do not possess replaceable pigment cartridges, indicating this trait evolved after the split. In this paper I will...

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