#atavistic

[dialoogid]

The Scissor Girls - We People Space With Phantoms (1996)

[paladinbaby]

spidersona doodles

[Image Description: Two drawings of a Spider-Man variant on a grey blue background. They wear a pale blue bodysuit from their waist up, under a black tank top and shorts as well as roller derby elbow wrist and knee guards and quad skates. Their mask is separated by round white eye holes and the bottom part is red with a web pattern radiating from one eye. They are drawn standing neutrally on the left and leaning back against something on the right with white eye like shapes surrounding their head. In the larger drawing they’re wearing a red bomber jacket on top of their spider suit. Their tank top has a red sacred heart in the centre with blue spider legs coming off it. End ID.]

[istuilu]

Real name: Isabel Garcia

Brazilian

She named the radioactive spider that bit her Spaghetti

Has organic webs

Aside from the usual spider powers she can multiply herself and so can Spaghetti

She has a psychic connection to her own doubles as well as to Spaghetti and her doubles

She has hammer space

She has average intelligence and hates chemistry and physics

She is a vet intern and an artist

She lives with her parents and her sister lives abroad, she can’t keep a secret from them, so they know she’s a super hero and they worry about her but are supportive

[musicmakesyousmart]

Fred Van Hove - Complete Vogel Recordings

Atavistic

2002

[musicollage]

Vandermark 5. Beat Reader, 2008. Atavistic.

[sciencenewsforstudents]

Human embryos have extra hand muscles found in lizards but not most adults

In developing human embryos, muscles are made, then lost, in a pattern that mirrors the appearance of the structures during evolution.

Human embryos are more muscle-bound than adult humans, new microscope images cataloging early development show.

For instance, at seven weeks of gestation, embryonic hands have about 30 muscles. Adults have about 19. Many of the muscles are lost, and some fuse with others, adopting the adult arrangement by 13 weeks of gestation, researchers report October 1 in Development.

Muscles in the feet, legs, trunk, arms and head also appear and disappear during development, researchers discovered after analyzing detailed 3-D images of human embryos and fetuses up to 13 weeks of gestation.

These appearing and disappearing, or atavistic, muscles are remnants of evolution, says biologist Rui Diogo of Howard University in Washington, D.C. Such atavistic muscles are built as a base from which to start paring down to the final set of muscles that people are born with, he says. “Losing and specializing, that’s what happens in human evolution.”

Other animals have kept some of those muscles. Adult chimpanzees and human embryos have epitrochleoanconeus muscles in their forearms, but most adult humans don’t. Human’s mammalian ancestors also lost dorsometacarpales muscles from the back of the hand about 250 million years ago as mammals and reptiles split on the evolutionary tree. Lizards still have those muscles, and they appear in human embryos, but then are lost or fuse with other muscles during development and aren’t found in most adults.

Sometimes, people retain some of the usually lost muscles, resulting in harmless anatomical variations. For example, about 13 percent of people in one study had epitrochleoanconeus muscles in their forearms.

[rp-kat]

Horna & Acherontas - Atavistic Resurgence

2015

[1five1two]

There are two distinct components to human nature: the social and the solitary. While most people are strictly social ... there are also quite a few loners, people who motivate themselves, derive their rewards directly from nature and whose only constraints are self-imposed. The solitary part of human nature is definitely the more highly evolved, and humanity has surged forward through the efforts of brilliant loners and eccentrics. Their names live on forever precisely because society was unable to extinguish their brilliance or thwart their initiatives through social inertia. On the other hand, our social instincts are atavistic and result far too reliably in mediocrity and conformism. We evolved to live in small groups of a few families, small enough to accommodate a few brilliant eccentrics, and our recent experiments that have gone beyond that limited scope seem to rely on herd instincts that may not even be specifically human. When facing imminent danger, large groups of humans have a tendency to panic and stampede, and on such occasions people regularly get trampled and crushed underfoot: a pinnacle of evolution indeed! Dmitry Orlov The Five Stages of Collapse