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Or just not having as many successful children. To pick what's probably a far exaggerated ratio, if you have four, and they have two, and that ratio continues each generation, you'll wind up with a lot more descendants, even if the competition is succeeding at replacing themselves. If one of your kids mates with one of theirs, maybe they'll have three successful kids, or maybe some sort of synergy between traits will lead to the combination having five or six. Where is that huge number of descendants going to go? America? There was lot of natives dying involved in that one. Alpha Centauri? No matter if gene is dominant or recessive, statistically, if you have at least two children there is big chance both version of that gene will get to next generation. Usually, you have to swim to where you find the food, dive to get it, and swim to where you left your bucket to put the food in, before swimming back to get more. Oh. Right. Cavemen likely didn't had much of a boat ... I'm not that sure about the bucket actually. Basket, more likely. But we *have* evolved traits useful for elderly individuals. We know how to make dentures and implants, how to slow progression of arthritis and treat its pain to keep people mobile far longer, how to build canes and walkers and braces and.... That's TECHNOLOGY, not evolution. We didn't evolved it, we invented it. Just like we invented weapons capable of killing any predator (or anything else, except cockroaches). Note that technology does NOT work on dying. Ideas can spread horizontally. In 9 months it takes to produce single genetic descendant you have plenty of time to spread new invention to whole population.

Old enough that Star Trek TNG would have been in syndication for at least a decade? That wasn't what I meant, although with the weird progress of time in EGS (as visible on the phones), even this can be an issue ... She can watch it at any age, but I don't think it can have that strong effect on her at age of 4. 7, maybe.

Actually it's completely possible Pandora will be only one aware of how much hijinks happened. It DOES seem like there is cascade in making, but it is possible it will go off without other people noticing it (or at least realizing how big hijinks it were, technically Akiko already noticed). I think if Mr. Verres would be involved, they would react differently on Cheerleadra in mall. Luke, on the other hand ... there might be potential here ...

I would think letting him know now would be better than to surprise him with it at the time needed to complete the task, I imagine he would need to prepare and that could take some time as well. On one hand, yes. On the other, I can see her wanting to postpone as much as possible. I can see Adrian attempting to call her out on it, she gets confused as to what he's talking about, and then Adrian being flabbergasted at finding out she doesn't know the pithos/box detail of her own namesake. I'm really looking forward to it. I think conspiracy might work. But apparently not as well as unkindness ...

Probably, I wouldn't be surprised though if Susan started watching it shortly after catching her father as well and it because a way for her to escape the drama of the divorce and such. It is canon that Susan wears a Star Trek shirt when she's upset and she was preoccupied with thoughts of her father when she wore one. ... how old was she when she caught her father again?

Nope, evolution works by reproductive success. If something you do helps you kids' children have more or more successful offspring, or your brother's children, or any other close relative, that is what counts. It's RELATIVE reproductive success. Which usually means someone is dying to make space for your children (or your brother children etc). But I mentioned dying specially in context of "evolving out" negative stuff. Evolution will not cause people who have trait X to have children without trait X - well, few of them, possibly, but the majority will get rid of trait X simply because people with trait X will die with less offspring and eventually die out. But diving is not exactly swimming in terms of muscle usage. In fact, diver might gain from having less muscles to lower oxygen consumption. Not really, tigers are excellent swimmers. ;-) ... hence you need to swim faster ... seriously? I though cats don't like water ... oh. I see. Cheetahs, leopards and lions avoid water, tigers are exception. Ok, make it "lot of lions" strategy. You got a source for that? Mine is my biology degree and all the lectures that led to it, as well as keeping up with the literature since then. Four dead teeth. Oh. Sorry. Might've lost context. With context, it's "It's apparently not effective enough to evolve traits useful in higher age, like third teeth or better defense against age-related diseases".

I did expected he will be the one. But I expected she will tell him later, after Sarah will get rid of enough of the ambient magic, so this appearing so soon surprised me as well. But she's not happy. (Possibly because she noticed the title of arc. "Unkidness", hmmm ...)

I'm mainly talking about how catching her father with another woman affected how Susan viewed herself and men most of her life. Yes, of course. Hence the ":)". But the Star Trek seems more personal to her.

This wasn't anger. It also wasn't true emotion, but still, I don't think anger have specific exception: it's just that displaying anger won't actually reveal anything which could make them vulnerable. (Note that I agree this seem to be something they share.)

Yeah, "not awful" cartoons Still, she evaluated the cartoons, not the cousins. She was talking about them hugging (situation), not about them (persons).

... what more personal stuff there is to know about Susan? (Yes, I know, they cut out the most personal bit. Presumably.) She said the CARTOONS were not awful. Nothing about the cousins

Is this jumping to weirdness on list? You think? I don't think that's the reason, or at least not only reason. She might agree to help her because she don't wish what happened to her even to her enemy ... and Diane is not her enemy. Or she might agree to meet her (and not necessary help) because trying to avoid her would be hard and better to at least pretend to do it voluntary instead of waiting when Diane decides to meet her "accidentally".

Rhoda, this is NOT nonchalantly. Too much of a good thing can make you sick ... I think Catalina looks younger now, maybe a sixth-grader? I think we can hardly say we SEE Catalina, with only her head visible.

Sirleck we saw at the end of So a Date, so he's already been recently seen. Right. Actually, it does make sense to see what Magus is up to as well since we haven't seen him since T-Minus: Dark Allegiance. This could potentially have a Sirleck appearance as well if Magus pays a visit to see if any progress has been made, though I wouldn't count on it or at the very least, Sirleck doesn't mention Adrian, because Magus would certainly point out that it's wrong. Also I doubt Magus was watching any of them or else he would have seen Voltaire's little show, although he probably knows about the show at the mall. If he's aware of Voltaire's involvement at all, he's probably very suspicious of the Immortal. He is unlikely to watch them now, yes. Especially with Helena and Demetrius watching. But WHEN he appears in comics, it will likely be because his plan progressed enough Helena and Demetrius are distracted and he can try to do something with Ellen. Unlikely. That may be reason why we will see Noah and Adrian.

It's even worse: evolution ONLY works by dying. Any condition not important enough to change number of children who survive long enough to have children will NOT be changed by evolution. Except by chance of course ... but that's unlikely. Hmmmm ... but it's not particularly enthusiastic about it, is it? Still, good information. You might be right but you shouldn't assume Good up to a certain weight, anyway. Too heavy, and it would strain your knees and hips more than is reasonable. Swimming and water aerobics are both great exercise, you burn a little extra keeping warm in most pools, and there's a lot less stress on the joints. I used to go to a pool that they sent cardiac patients to for rehab, and a lot of them would just start out walking from side of the pool to the other and back, until they got in a bit better shape. Just tell your inner caveman you live on the shore and you're getting some yummy seafood. I don't think caveman was able to catch a fish while swimming. Standing in swallow water, yes. But swimming was only for case tiger appeared on shore (possibly sabre-toothed one). Or, obviously, for the "more stuff to eat on the other island" case. Still, the "lot of tigers" strategy might work. Again, above a certain point, push-ups and pull-ups aren't going to happen. Picture strapping on a backpack filled with a hundred pounds of extra weight, and then doing your set of push-ups. Only the very fit, long-term strength trainers would be able to do it. If you do enough push-ups, you will never get that heavy ... yes, I don't think anyone is doing that many of them. I don't think it reached level of Ingress yet, and Ingress didn't had much success. I gave bigger chances to Wii, but it didn't catch up much. But maybe some future gaming controller for PCs will get game popular enough? There's evidence that the selective impact of helping the offspring of someone who shares fifty percent of your genes can be significant, evolutionarily. In other words, there's good selective reasons for an infertile or older individual to help raise the offspring of their close relatives. "Aunting" behavior is well-documented in a lot of species, and there are individuals in many species who outlive their own direct reproductive systems but stick around to help make sure the grandkids have every advantage they can supply. While true, it's apparently not effective enough. With her constant questions about when I get some children, I don't think she's trying to hide it. Sweating is not reason to not exercise. It's just reason to not do it in public. Overheating is worse I guess ...

Adrian Raven is certain. We have less confidence ... some very persistent cousin (many times removed). But yes, this makes more sense than Susan being elf without knowing. ... you think Noriko left because she caught him cheating with Pandora? That would put completely different dimensions to Adrian's self-blame ... Wait. How would that fit with Susan? We haven't seen Adrian (at least current time Adrian) since Death Sentence. And we know there's a plot in the process of being carried out against him. We've seen much of the Main Eight's side of things and while Justin hasn't been part of it, I don't see what bringing him in next would accomplish anything and we'll likely see him Monday anyway. If we're going to shift to another character I think Adrian would be it, Noah making an appearance would be likely as well, maybe we'll hear their opinion on what happened to Elliot at the mall? Makes sense. I mean, while Ashley would be most likely to appear next, the fact Dan talks about "someone we haven't seen in a while" suggests either Adrian, Noah or maybe Sirleck. Or all of them. We didn't see Magus for long time either, but he will likely appear with Ellen and she just was in this part, so ...

Our brains might evolved from stone age but not from bronze age. It's just the brain content which got upgraded. And, yes, the base OS is still the same. Also, our survival depends more on brain than on muscles. Caveman wouldn't survive 10 minutes in city traffic. But brain can't run on fat, it needs sugar. Running is good: "Hey, inner caveman: the animals got faster. You need to build more muscles so we can catch them." Push-up is a typical example of exercise with feedback: the more fat you have, the more you exercise when you do the same number of push-ups. I don't think I will have problem with that. :) Unless the experts behind the most successful aerobic training game - Pokemon Go - got something even better for anaerobic Remember that anything which happens after the age of 50 is random. We did not evolved to survive beyond 50. If we would, we would have third teeth for example. And 50 might even be too optimistic ... woman get menopause when they do because so few survived that long (and that many pregnancies) it didn't matter.

"Very little long-term change"? That's better that I assumed. I though usually the long-term change is NEGATIVE, because the body keeps slower metabolism even if you STOP with the calorie restriction.

Yes ; she may later become ready for more, but I think even this doesn't match the definition of asexual.

Diane holding a high standard of cleanliness would fit if she used that when choosing which guys to "date", she wouldn't want to be seen hanging around dirty people. I just felt that the bathroom incident was another hint that Dan gave about Diane's possible relation to Susan, that despite growing up in very different environments, they still have similar personalities and quirks. Hmmm ... maybe she may hold high standard but not as high as Susan ... I definitely don't think she will use hand sanitizer. But maybe she would understand why Susan does. Also the fact that Luke has magic and Sarah, Tedd and Grace are unsure whether to trust him despite the fact that Sarah and Grace really want to see Justin get some action. ... Sarah maybe, but I don't think Grace would like to watch it ...

I guess, considering Diane found Grace and Rhoda in the bathroom, it would be understandable to hope they had clean hands. Still Dan did continue Susan's behaviour and personally I think it's an amusing quirk for a character to have. It was fun with Susan, but I don't think it would be as fun with Diane. Especially considering her much more social lifestyle would make it more complicated. The personal stuff about his mark and talent and why he doesn't want his dad to know, considering half the group already knew and now Nanase and Susan knows, it would really just be Elliot and Ellen left, Tedd might tell them but again stress that he doesn't want Edward to know about that. Everthing else that happened during the tournament would be safe. Of course after Nanase and Susan's visit the original idea wouldn't work Also, what else happened during tournament? Well, ok, Justin and Sarah got dates, but that's really not important compared to Tedd's talent.

FYI, Kinsey's scale included "X" for "asexual." Which doesn't completely match her either.

Great-Aunt in terms of them being a sister to a Great-Grandparent is how I always saw it, but my Grandparent's sisters were all just Aunts as well as my Parent's sisters. Some families don't care that much, especially if it's about explaining to children. My grandma's sister was always just aunt as well.

Both good places they should visit, but I would like to mention that there is lot in progress now and they don't necessary need to get in those places first time they meet. Especially considering Greg would likely need to be informed in advance. If you look at commentary, not even Susan was originally supposed to be clean freak. Diane's reaction is NORMAL - or at least, what Dan considers normal. No clean freak. I think that the idea was they will talk during lunch and maybe agree that this warrants getting together. Also, Tedd might not be in hurry explaining something so personal, so he possibly tried to postpone it as much as possible.

If Dan posts on Monday, why check in Tuesday? (Besides OCD of course.) You underestimate the power of programming. I created special reader optimized for "checking which comics changed today". It has just two problems ... it doesn't work well if I don't check every day and it doesn't work well if I want to check several times per day. But I'm sure I can fix both when I get to it ... ok, maybe the reader is less optimized and more something I'm using because it's mine.