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^Oh my goodness, yes! I cite that every time someone snottily points out “oh, I thought everyone knew that”. Now, I may quibble with whether this is truly something “everyone” knew - Dopers being a particularly well-educated population, of course - but that is one of the most insightful of all the insightful XKCDs out there!
ETA: Just noticed your join date. Has anyone welcomed you to the boards yet? If not, let me do so. We particularly like new posters who are well-versed with XKCD, so you’re off to a good start!
Erases drawing of a male tyrannosaurus presenting a bouquet of flowers to his mate
Reads Colibri’s follow up post and says, “Damn.”
No. By definition, most recent common ancestors are not considered part of either descendant group. The groups as such originate after the split.
Here’s an article about what the common ancestor may have been like.
I’ve been watching a fungus takeover of a tree stump in my apartment complex. What started out 2 years ago as a nice specimen in the trunk hollow has progressed to a regular series of mushroom “blooms” and additional growths around the base. Pretty cool. (link to image)
Nope, and thanks. I’m sure I’ve ran into links to individual threads posted here over the years, but somehow I managed to not start browsing around the site until a couple of weeks ago–and kick myself missing out for so long.
If that happened to me, it would make me a real fun guy.
Man, that is cool! Thank you for the reference.