from Hacker News

Progressive Loss of Function in a Limb Enhancer During Snake Evolution (2016)

by sandwichsphinx on 12/25/24, 9:16 PM with 5 comments

• by ggm on 12/25/24, 9:36 PM

  I had to click through. I thought this was about neuronal deactivation in "smart" artificial hands, playing the phone game too much causing some kind of fatigue.

  It's about how limbless creatures emerge under genetic pressure from evolution, from the common fetal form which includes information to develop limbs.

  How in the name of sweet balrog did a genetic process get called sonic hedgehog?