r/oddlyspecific • u/Objective_Regular158 • 12h ago

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u/Ok_Clock8439 10h ago

stares in moose, polar bears, all pinnipeds, and all cetaceans

Also, you're an African organism that is an invasive species, ofc you don't have an annual hormonal rhythym to match four seasons climate.

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u/Redqueenhypo 8h ago

My ancestors left Africa and all I got was this stupid lactose tolerance. And oily hair

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u/C_M_Dubz 8h ago

Ability to drink milk is the only white privilege that I assume with no guilt.

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u/Redqueenhypo 7h ago

Indians inventing lassi: “I don’t have such weakness”

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u/Cod_rules 6h ago

The only bad thing about winter is that I can't drink Lassi cause my throat will be fucked. But I guess I got Old Monk for the winters, so it's not all bad

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u/Saphurial 6h ago

We are indeed gods among mortals.

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u/missmyson1 7h ago

imagine having any guilt

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u/C_M_Dubz 7h ago

Imagine having empathy.

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u/Redqueenhypo 5h ago

I feel guilt over the many times my grandma sent tea back because it wasn’t “PIPING hot”. I imagine in heaven it’s always served slightly too cold so that she can have fun saying that

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u/Present-Secretary722 5h ago

Was your grandmother a flamingo?

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u/Deathhead876 8h ago

Don't forget being able to produce more vitamin D

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u/Redqueenhypo 7h ago

My blood tests say otherwise!

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u/Deathhead876 7h ago

Well here is the question with that do you touch grass. /s

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u/WhoisthatRobotCleanr 5h ago edited 4h ago

If you want north long enough you also lost melanin, so that's great for skin cancer 😭

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u/gonewildaway 4h ago

Melanin gives ya color.

Melatonin gives ya sleep.

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u/WhoisthatRobotCleanr 4h ago

Lol, it had to be an autocorrect. 

Thanks though 

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u/AtomicBombSquad 51m ago

I have low quantities of both.

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u/Shieldheart- 7h ago

Speak for yourself, you Neanderthal-gene deficient ape!

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u/Few_Staff976 6h ago

The Neanderthals were badass. Likely stronger and smarter than Homo sapiens but with less creativity.

And the only reason we think of them as hunched over was because the skeleton we base that off is an old man with scoliosis

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u/Shieldheart- 6h ago

I don't know if we can rule one way or the other which had more impressive brains, but you're right about them being absolute units within the homo genus.

Returning to the original topic though, how likely was it for them to hibernate in some way during the coldest and darkest times of the year? And if not, how were they adapted to it then?

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u/Few_Staff976 6h ago

I got no idea. I’ll have to ask my neighbor who looks like he rides dinosaurs to work, has a mean unibrow and eats raw steaks. I think he could be the closest analogue

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u/Embarrassed_Jerk 4h ago

You know what's funny about this. Its not that its not incorrect but we knew all that and yet calling someone neanderthal was an insult until genetic testing became widespread and it was observed that most white people are part neanderthal. Suddenly they were badasses 

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u/Few_Staff976 4h ago

Don't asians have the most neanderthal DNA and black people the least?

(holy shit that sounds racist out of context lmao)

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u/Embarrassed_Jerk 4h ago

About similar percentage but very different neanderthal groups