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| ▲ | culi 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| There is only one species of octopus that lives socially (LPSO are rare and incredibly intelligent but their lifespans are like 3 years) Maybe your headcannon should be that apes did a "tower of babel" type thing to make all the octopus individualistic and unable to organize into a civilization |
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| ▲ | yieldcrv 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| mutations that occur after reproduction are never weeded out since the genes are passed on already, so natural selection on its own can result in this, just like cancer or lower safeguards against cancer such as short telomeres in humans |
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| ▲ | a_t48 an hour ago | parent [-] | | This isn’t quite true, is it? A mutation that killed 5 years after childbirth would result in higher mortality rates for the child. | | |
| ▲ | yieldcrv 31 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Octopus have extremely high mortality rates and extremely large litters, so there’s that They don’t raise their offspring | | |
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