• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    What’s even easier than humans evolving kangaroo-like pouches to gestate their fetuses is humans forcing kangaroos to gestate human fetuses as surrogates.

    The solution exists, we just haven’t exploited it yet.

    • TraipsersWill@lemmy.worldOP
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      7 days ago

      I’m trying to envision a human child from a 'roo surrogate, and all I’m seeing is a toddler who cannot be kept in a playpen that has an open top…

  • wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 days ago

    The same reason centaurs don’t exist: baby humans can’t hold their heads upright on their own for months. Poor li’l foals’d snap their own necks just by existing. 🥲

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        8 days ago

        Right? I mean, legendary points for upright ambulation and sweat glands to make our distant ancestors the first (?) distance hunters, walking/jogging their prey to exhaustion. (Also, apparently the most efficient way to “run”, according to many athletes.)

        First mover advantage for the win! Still, minus a bajillion for making our progeny so “cute” they’re basically Disneyfied worms. (Until they learn to walk?! Who does that? Eesh.)