3199: Early Arthropods
| Early Arthropods |
 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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- [Wide panel with three arthropods on the seabed:]
- Arthropod 1: Now that we're multicellular, what are your plans?
- Arthropod 1: I'm gonna evolve little legs and swim around with them!
- Arthropod 2: I'm gonna evolve sharp pincers and use them to crunch stuff!
- Arthropod 3: I'm gonna evolve glands to make string from my butt and use it to construct elaborate geometric nets hundreds of times my size to catch other animals.
- [Beat panel narrowed in on three arthropods.]
- [Same scene:]
- Arthropod 1: Dude.
- Arthropod 2: Can you please just be normal about this?
- Arthropod 3: What??!
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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)
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)
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) Add comment
