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Quick Quiz

Recently, this has been seen doing the rounds on the interweb:
My first thought: clever. My second thought: hang on, there's something wrong here. Anyone care to guess what it was?

5 comments:

  1. The divergence of Holometabola and Eumetabola precedes the divergence of thrips from other Eumetabolans. Ergo the fakey "pseudo-holometabolous" (hemiholometabolous?) development of thrips is a convergent novelty that post-dates the origins of the true holometabolous condition?

    Thus thrips are more like Greenday than Death; or more like the Black Keys than Lead Belly; or more like Skrillex than Silver Apples; or more like No Doubt than Prince Buster. I was into all of those bands before they were cool, except for the ones that aren't cool.

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  2. No, I have no objection to the use of the term 'holometabolous' to describe thrips...

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  3. That guy's jeans are way too loose.

    Plus he's not ironically wearing nerdy glasses or even a trucker hat.

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  4. The glasses are upside down for the thrips.

    Cute observation!

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  5. The problem with thripsters, now at http://coo.fieldofscience.com/2013/06/holometabolous-when.html

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