Having Big Genitals Can Spell Evolutionary Disaster, Say Paleobiologists

inverse.com ^ | Sara Sloat

[BenLurkin]

The study, authored by scientists at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, shows that the size and shape of at least one species’ genitals has spelled out disaster for longevity. Their analysis of the fossils of ostracods — tiny, shrimp-like crustaceans that are still around today — indicated that individuals with larger and more elongated sex organs had “estimated extinction rates that were ten times higher than those of the same species with the lowest investment.”

“Investment” here refers to genitalia — namely, the amount of energy any species invests into growing bigger sex organs. The idea in this paper is that the energy that older ancestors of ostracods spent on having large sex organs left them unable to develop traits that would have left them better equipped for survival, albeit with smaller dicks.

“We showed that when males are larger and more elongated than the females, those species tend to not last as long in the fossil record,” explained co-author and paleobiologist Gene Hunt, Ph.D. in a statement released Wednesday. “They have a higher risk of extinction.”

[BipolarBob]

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[Dalberg-Acton]

Well, I’m safe. :^(

[Responsibility2nd]

I am so evolutionary screwed.

[lee martell]

“Investment”....lol!

['smith]

Study performed by scientists with very small hands.

[StAntKnee]

I’m here for the comments.

[jyo19]

Poor Baron Trump!

[grey_whiskers]

I’m doomed.

[sparklite2]

This one deleted, too.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Ezekiel 23:20 New International Version (NIV)

20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

[a fool in paradise]

Genital size doesn’t matter when rising numbers are turning to homosexuality, transgender sex surgery, and abortion.

Species ARE killing themselves off because godless Communists demand it.

[grey_whiskers]

Someone explain ducks then.

Duck dicks do not fit well in duck vaginas, which tend to be corkscrew shaped to prevent rape.

[umgud]

Jennifer Flowers stated in her book that Bubba was hung like a hamster.

[Old Yeller]

It’s a dang curse, let me tell you.

[Catmom]

...up to a point we do.

[Ken H]

In before thread is, er, pulled.

[Old Yeller]

Duck dicks do not fit well in duck vaginas, which tend to be corkscrew shaped to prevent rape.

What are you, Cliff Claven?

[DAC21]

Big Hands Comey is worried. Medium hands Trump is safe.