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@xenmen @lain @augustus so are beavers, wow
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@lain @augustus It's a reminder that with selection pressure too deviant from nature, small mutants in critical alleles pile up until the orgnism CAN'T survive without the artificial environnent.Humans are subject to this too, that's the point.
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@augustus cool but I hope you don't think that's sad or something
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>Domestic silk moths are entirely dependent on humans for reproduction, as a result of millennia of selective breeding. >Domestic silk moths are very different from most members in the genus Bombyx; not only have they lost the ability to fly, but their color pigments have also been lost.