mutual 1: [one million posts about a fandom im not in. in the span of five minutes]
mutual 2: M. Caelius too must not pass unnoticed, notwithstanding the unhappy change, either of his fortune or disposition, which marked the latter part of his life. As long as he was directed by my influence, he behaved himself so well as a tribune of the people, that no man supported the interests of the senate, and of all the good and virtuous, in opposition to the
mutual 3: patricide would fix me
mutual 4: [5000 word theoretically informed breakdown of a book i have not read]
mutual 5: #omg this reminds me of the roman legal system
mutual 6: cannibalism is so mainstream now we need to start posting about necrophilia
mutual 7: so a detailed prosopographical analysis of this roman family reveals that actually they all died due to being haunted by an ancestral curse
mutuals 8-10: this tv show is actually just sophocles’ oedipus. to me
mutual 11: [this post contains filtered tags] [this post contains filtered tags] [this post contains filtered tags] [this post contains filtered tags] [this post contains filtered tags]
mutual 12: here’s why these two words actually have NO etymological connection!!!
mutual 13: i’m just like this 18th century lawyer but a girl
mutual 14: cicero big naturals
mutual 15: scurvy is inherently both transgender and sexy…… put the rot in eroticism or whatever
mutual 16: she moby on my dick until i doomed by the narrative
i actually really like how the new tumblr bots have realistic usernames but are otherwise obviously fake. really invites you to meditate on the form - the micro-genre, even - that is the tumblr url
Vavilovian mimicry is a good illustration of unintentional selection by humans. Although the human selective agents might be conscious of their impact on the local weed gene pool,
such effects go against the goals of those growing crops. Weeders do
not want to select for weeds that are increasingly similar to the
cultivated plant, yet the only other option is to let the weeds grow and
compete with crops for sunlight and nutrients. Similar situations include antibiotic resistance and, also in agricultural crops, herbicide resistance.
Having acquired many desirable qualities by being subjected to similar
selective pressures, Vavilovian mimics may eventually be domesticated
themselves. Vavilov called these weeds-become-crops secondary crops.
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Another example is rye (Secale cereale), a grass which is derived from wild rye (Secale montanum), a widely distributed Mediterranean species. Rye was originally just a weed growing with wheat and barley,
but came under similar selective pressures to the crops. Like wheat, it
came to have larger seeds and more rigid spindles to which the seeds
are attached. However, wheat is an annual plant, while wild rye is a perennial.
At the end of each growing season wheat produces seeds, while wild rye
does not and is thus destroyed as the post-harvest soil is tilled. However, there are occasional mutants that do set seed. These have been protected from destruction, and rye has thus evolved to become an annual plant.[5]
Rye is a hardier plant than wheat, surviving in harsher conditions. Having become preadapted
as a crop through wheat mimicry, rye was then positioned to become a
cultivated plant in areas where soil and climatic conditions favored its
production, such as mountainous terrain.[4]
This fate is shared by oats (Avena sativa and Avena byzantina), which also tolerate poorer conditions, and like rye, grow as a weed alongside wheat and barley. Derived from a wild species (Avena sterilis),
it has thus come to be a crop in its own right. Once again paralleling
wheat, rye and other cereals, oats have developed tough spindles which
prevent seeds from easily dropping off, and other characteristics which
also help in natural dispersal have become vestigial, including the awns which allow them to self bury.[4]
Huh, I never considered that. Evolution wins yet again
This is what the porn bots are currently in the process of doing
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