Some parts of this biological system are still very hard for me to wrap my head around. Will drink a beer and do a thread if, when, the arc of history looks different.

Supplement may be of interest for folks thinking about reconstructing complex biological relationships (graphs) in a phylogenetic context.

DOG SHOW RULES

I guess all I'm asking for is a massive bracket for each genus -> family -> order where ornithologists around the world can vote for the objectively best bird, and the winners get to rep their lineage on the tree 😇

I made the Jim from The Office face to the friend I was eating with

I feel superior, researchers get their rocks off, journal gets pub fees it's a win-win-win

(the brat is me)

I guess I'm just feeling a lot of sympathy for history rn

imagine working so hard FROM SCRATCH to make birds and some brat is like, "oohh but they're not viviparous yet 😒"

the only things that have ever happened happened historically, dunno why I should think of it as constraint w/r/t something random I made up

like giving someone $5 and them being like, "you're selfish, you didn't give me $10!"

which, to be fair, would be a very evo biol response to that situation

imagine being history and making literally everything that has ever happened, happen, and then people being like, man that's not enough we want more

Way more than I ever got when I was, you know, whatever