In the beginning, there was only an ancient giraffe.

Then it evolved. The snakes lost their feet and belly, and then some of them moved to water, where they further evolved into fish and then sharks. The frogs evolved from a flat but wide version of primitive giraffes, leaving dry land and eventually beginning their lives in shallow waters.

And the humans lost their long neck and hard hoofs, although, the spots on their hair in some cases do return at a late stage in life.

The apes evolved from humans, losing much of their brains, but retaining many of the other features that we still have. So essentially, apes are actually human descendants, at an advanced stage of decay.
-- pashute, Feb 10 2017

Dark sucker theory https://astro.uni-b.../dark_sucker_2.html
[pashute, Mar 19 2017]

What about the cranial accessory nerve then?
-- nineteenthly, Feb 10 2017


So, presumably, sedimentary rocks were deposited from below rather than (as is often naively assumed) above, and have been gradually enriched in unstable isotopes over time?
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Feb 10 2017


[marked-for-deletion] theory.
-- RayfordSteele, Feb 10 2017


Is this some kind of variation on "turtles all the way down"?
-- ixnaum, Feb 16 2017


What if it's autotrophic?
-- nineteenthly, Feb 17 2017



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