Originally published at: Flatworms can either regrow their bodies or have sex, but not both | Boing Boing
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Tough call.
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Story of my life.
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Either one seems like too much work. Is a nice nap and maybe some cookies an option?
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Well, it kind of depends on exactly which precise part of the body needs to be regrown, doesn’t it?
But if it’s a one-time binary choice, what’s the point of regrowing that particular part, anyway?
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TIL I learned there’s a biological corollary to Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle.
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I have a vague recollection of “David” in The 40-Year-Old Virgin, whining and complaining about his love life, then observing that “Andy” was better off since he – by being a virgin – looked much younger than his 40 years.
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To clarify, it’s a choice at the evolutionary level, not a choice for the individual worm.
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Plays into the discussion earlier of red heads and anesthesia. Evolution is a messy, jury-rigged process using whatever is lying around at the time. Makes it fascinatingly, disastrously, unpredictably chaotic. But that’s why it’s fun!
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