scrulevy
scrulevy
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i wish i understood this meme
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Our ancestors presumed we wouldn't be stupid enough to stop eating fruit and didn't bother specing into vitaman C production.
They also presumed we wouldn't sail the seas for long distances with only salted meats and booze so jokes on them 👈👈
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people get scurvy if they don't eat enough citric fruit.
the meme says (this isn't information I know), that an ancestor to monkeys, instead of producing ascorbic acid "from their cells" (through.. "other means" , I guess like how our bodies can turn food into various chemicals) , eats fruit to get ascorbic acid instead.
This seems to have an evolutionary advantage, as the other monkey had sex with that fruit eater explicity to have kids.
Thus, when the guy sailing doesn't get ascorbic acid from fresh fruit , he gets scurvy which fucks up his gums and teeth.
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Yeah, the cells of most animals have the ability to make their own vitamin C, very likely including our ancestors if you go back far enough. The evolutionary reason why we stopped is probably simply because our bodies stopped needing to make it due to our fruit diet, so individuals that didn't make the acid had a little bit more energy and nutrients to spare that would've otherwise been wasted to make it when it's not needed. Over millions of years that small difference was enough for them to survive to parenthood slightly more often than their peers, slowly edging them out of the gene pool.
Evolution generally pushes bodies to conserve resources, so unnecessary things are usually dropped if the environment doesn't require them for long enough. Kinda like how creatures living in dark caves eventually evolve to stop wasting the resources to make eyes and pigmented skin.
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it's not a particularly deep joke, at some point in the past our ancient ancestors stopped producing vitamin c by themselves so now we get scurvy if we don't eat fruit sometimes.
also British teeth stereotypically suckthose are the only two things you need to understand the joke
oh and to "fuck [someone] raw" just means to have unprotected sex
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