Ahhh a twitter thread to enjoy, scroll though images and descriptions of animals listed from ones most unlike humans (sponges) to the ones most like humans (chimpanzees)

Pick one at the extremes or somewhere in the middle. Pretend you meet up at a social event and want to engage more. What is a good opening line? Hmmm, let’s try reptiles/birds/maybe snakes, “You and reptiles and birds are all amniotes: animals whose embryos are suspended in fluid-filled sacs.”

What can you open with to talk about the virtues of being an amniotes?

“Hey, nice to meet you. Can we imagine how we’d get to this phase of life where it not for our embryos having been suspended in fluid sacs? Whew”

Okay maybe this shows how bad I am at social chit chat– can you do better?

 

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