3199: Early Arthropods

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Early Arthropods
'Ugh, I'm never going to be like spiders. My descendants will all just be normal arthropods who mind their own busines and don't do anything weird.' --The ancestor of a bunch of eusocial insects
Title text: 'Ugh, I'm never going to be like spiders. My descendants will all just be normal arthropods who mind their own busines and don't do anything weird.' --The ancestor of a bunch of eusocial insects

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Edit conflict on the transcript. Whoops! —megan talk contribs 00:45, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

there is a typo in title text, i wonder if it will be corrected 2A02:A31A:E2CD:5300:5450:CAAA:3F64:5EE5 01:45, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

First - 45.178.1.151 01:08, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

Firster 82.13.184.33 10:31, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

Early Cnidarians:

"I'm going to be the biggest quilt-shaped bag of cells I can be!"

"I'm going to evolve special stinging cells!"

"I'm going to use epigenetics to lock my cells into lifelong somatic roles, and then they can use synaptic learning in their newly stable neural nets to develop novel behaviors by learning from their environment, and eventually one of my descendants will invent machines that they can publish webcomics on!" Cphoenix (talk) 04:37, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

"I'm going to hang out in space and use my body to spell out intimidating messages before attacking and devouring my victims" 82.13.184.33 10:45, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

Ooh someone else saw that paper about ants giving birth to ants of other species!! SO weird! 160.39.41.199 04:44, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

At least one species of fly also uses strings covered with glue to trap prey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnocampa_luminosa. Nitpicking (talk) 12:20, 27 January 2026 (UTC)
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