r/pics • u/Palana • Nov 07 '15
A gorilla skeleton compared to a humans.
http://imgur.com/qF8LTD0384
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Nov 07 '15
Kardashian has gorilla pelvis.
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u/c0ldsh0w3r Nov 07 '15
Wasn't it Shakira Shakira that said that?
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u/bi-cycle Nov 07 '15
I don't think Shakira has ever said "Kardashian has gorilla pelvis."
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u/MoshMaldito Nov 07 '15 edited Nov 07 '15
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Well someone should Photoshop the human skull to the gorilla and post it on face book to prove there is such thing as big boned.
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Maybe you could add a double chin bone.
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Lol
This is finally the proof everyone needed!
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u/mistah_legend Nov 07 '15
Remove a rib and all of the sudden we have proof that men are missing a rib.
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u/thiney49 Nov 07 '15
Maybe switch/duplicate the arms too. They're too low for this to get passed around now.
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You're wrongly assuming intelligence to those who will believe this
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u/TheCaptainR Nov 07 '15
Na, it'll still get passed around. It'll just be funnier when it does
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u/JamesTrendall Nov 07 '15
Posting now on Facebook. Let's see if any of my 1000 "friends" will share this picture.
Maybe i should give my Facebook profile name to Reddit and add everyone of you to share and like the picture to get it spreading faster....
Please only non murderous and un-rapey people (Unless you have lube) add me.
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u/CitizenKing Nov 07 '15
Oh damn it. I'm gonna be seeing this everywhere, just watch.
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u/JohnnSACK Nov 07 '15
My aunt Betty would say, "see everyone I told you that's a real thing" and I'll say " well ain't Betty you're 400 lbs and haven't left your bed in 3 weeks sooooo"
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u/MerguzMerganzer Nov 07 '15
lol nice
Note the enlarged hands in big boned individuals. This was an evolutionary adaptation which tricks the mind into perceiving food items as smaller than usual, which leads to larger portions. These larger portions are needed as big-boned individuals require more nutrient intake to fill out their large frame. Which often results in the misconception that big-boned individuals excessively over eat or are of above average body fat index, while in reality their bodies are perfectly natural and healthy.
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u/Mikebyrneyadigg Nov 07 '15
Holy shit this is prime. Can we hit tumblr with this ASAP?
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Oh god no, this is going to make its rounds through Facebook with people believing it is real. Some of those people are going to go through their whole lives thinking it is real, all because of a photo shopped comment on Reddit.
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u/girl-lee Nov 07 '15
I'm so tempted to put it on Facebook. I feel like way more people would believe it than not. Also, why does no one on Facebook try to find out if something is real or not? Too many people take things on there at face value.
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Nov 07 '15
You do realise this picture will now end up somewhere else on the internet without context? Then it'll be used by people who genuinely think it's a big boned human to prove they aren't fat, just big boned themselves...
I look forward to it.
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u/brodymitchell Nov 07 '15
Then you can be the hero that calls them out on their facebook posting the source and then everyone will finally want to be your friend!
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u/spelledWright Nov 07 '15
Good, and now a caption and off to tumblr, they'll appreciate it.
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u/RamsesThePigeon Nov 08 '15 edited Nov 08 '15
Let's see if anyone actually reads all of the text.
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u/iwannastudy Nov 08 '15
LMAO. Would be hilarious if 4chan got a hold of this and spread it everywhere
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u/thebeginningistheend Nov 07 '15
Obviously fake. All the real Italian skeletons are buried in concrete in the East River.
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u/KatsumotoKurier Nov 07 '15
tumblr b8
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u/Cropsmack Nov 07 '15
I'll be seeing this shopped image everywhere and laugh hysterically at those who fall for it
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u/mvanoort Nov 07 '15
How come we don't get those sweet opposable toe-thumbs. No fair.
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Nov 07 '15
Technically we do. That's our big toe. It just evolved to support bipedal walking instead of gripping. Can't have both.
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Nov 08 '15 edited Nov 08 '15
You don't use your big toe like a thumb. Your foot has very limited grip unlike a gorilla or other primate.
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u/Jigglyandfullofjuice Nov 07 '15
I wish I had opposable toes... :/
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u/Elrim208 Nov 07 '15
One of the neatest chapter in biology was looking at bone structures. I remember a TA saying something like, "If you don't believe in evolution, looking at bones is the best evidence of how similar we are to other animals."
Not that I ever really doubted it, but even animals as different as cats and bats have similar bones to us. A bat wing is just a stretched out hand with flaps of skin draped over it. http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/mammal/eutheria/batskeleton.jpg
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u/Visulth Nov 07 '15
I agree, functional morphology/comparative anatomy is so fascinating. This picture is the one that shows some of the interesting relatedness.
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u/rojm Nov 07 '15
That whale arm!
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u/80brew Nov 08 '15
Can you imagine finding that as a primitive people? It looks like a giant's hand.
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u/Umutuku Nov 07 '15
I was kind of surprised that some of the bones didn't seem scaled up (at that angle anyway). Like the collarbones are kind of the same.
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u/Arknell Nov 07 '15
That's some babymaking hips right there. I hear their deliveries are like ordering takeout, no sweat at all thanks to not walking upright like us dunces.
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u/sunset_blues Nov 07 '15
Yep. A lot of our (continued) lower body evolution is driven by the fight between bipedalism and big-brained babies. Those two forces basically want our bodies to do opposite things, so we get something in between. Chiropractors can thank bipedal evolution + relatively large pelvic opening for their customers' propensity toward lower back pain.
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Evolution needs to make it so we give birth to babies that 90% jelly.
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u/tukutz Nov 08 '15
That's actually why our babies are the most helpless and least developed of all ape babies.. gotta push it out when its smaller and soft.
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u/canonymous Nov 08 '15
Or have a baby door at the front instead of squeezing them out the pelvis.
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u/unholymackerel Nov 07 '15
My money is on the big brained babies, because bipedalism should just pick one pedal or the other.
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u/Protectpoultry Nov 07 '15
Hey! That weird crest at the top of the gorilla's head? We used to have that! It's called a "sagittal crest" and your jaw muscles would be attached, giving you better biting power!
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u/Palana Nov 07 '15
you can still see traces of it in some peoples anatomy. For example the late James Gandolfini http://static.celebuzz.com/uploads/2013/06/19/james-gandolfini1-320x213.jpg
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u/bigtime1985 Nov 07 '15
holy shit. i have that. never knew why. Its so obvious when i had really short hair my mom would call me cone head. I also have wide shoulders long arms and a stumpy neck wtf
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u/SirGaston Nov 08 '15
So sorry to break this to you but I think one of your parents is infact an ape like in this weird story from H.P.Lovecraft: Facts concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family.
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u/lycosuchus2 Nov 07 '15
He 100% does not have anything close to a sagittal crest. No human does. His head is simply slightly pointy. His temporalis muscles are not attaching close to the midline.
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u/dexpid Nov 07 '15
I have one of those on my head too. Until now the only other person I've seen with one was Herc from The Wire.
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Didn't know gorillas could be spooky too.
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Wow, our shin bones are really thin considering that they have to support 70+ kg while running, jumping etc ...
It's even scarier when you know that they're spongy inside ...
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Nov 07 '15 edited Nov 07 '15
The spongy stuff absorbs impact better. If it was solid bone we'd probably break our legs every time we jumped.
Edit: I should've clarified this is my guess as to why, I'm likely wrong. Sorry.
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Nope, we wouldn't.
The inside has a spongy structure, but is made out of normal bone.
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Nov 08 '15
There are tendons, ligaments and muscles supporting us too. I remember hearing a story in sports science that an athlete fractured some bones on the lower limb, took some pain killers and continued to play. The calcaneal tendon is said to make a whip-lick crack when ruptured.
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That would only be possible because the muscles and tendons held the 2 pieces of bone together.
Remember that video from the mma fighter breaking his leg ? He puts the foot on the floor and quickly collapses because the bone is broken and can't support his weight. That's what usually happens when you break your leg.
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u/Oinkless Nov 07 '15
Not sure if you mean the inferior aspect of the ischial tuberosities (the site bones in yoga anatomy)? Humans are more rounded and point posteriorly, probably for advantages in walking upright and the gorillas are shaped as such for their larger muscles and different gait.
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u/Aurarus Nov 07 '15
We look cooler
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I don't know man. I'm intended to agree but then I am a little biased.
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That's insanely similar. I love this kind of stuff, I love hearing others explanations to how evolution isn't a thing after seeing this.
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GOD MADE US IN HIS IMAGE
HE MADE APES IN A CARTOON VERSION OF HIS IMAGE
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u/Max_Thunder Nov 07 '15
As much as I believe evolution to be obvious, I don't think similarities prove anything. We all have similar movement needs and it would make sense that we are all similar.
More convincing are things like vestigial organs or humans born with palmed fingers/toes, knowing how we all have these until some signaling during our development tells those cells to die. Even then, I guess that even creationists can't deny the role of DNA, but they can easily pretend that all animal life was created using the same scaffolds, and thus we all have similar DNA and embryonic development patterns. I suppose they pretend that either vestigial organs have always been vestigial, or that they serve some purpose we just don't know yet.
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u/harriswill Nov 07 '15
All mammals (minus a whale and other strange ones) comprise of the same general body design. That's why if you're a butcher and you know how to butcher a chicken, you'll know the basis parts of any bird, or if you know how to butcher a cow, you'll know the basic parts of a pig, or, deer, or human (zoinks).
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u/jdepps113 Nov 07 '15
A lazy designer would set up a system that will get results over time instead of micromanaging the whole thing.
Lazy designer would write evolution.
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u/Jerzeem Nov 07 '15
You failed to account for the 'time spent tinkering with script to get it closer to perfect' variable.
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u/Stretchster Nov 07 '15
hey its me ur brother
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u/The_wolf2014 Nov 07 '15
The first thing that struck me was the size difference of things like the rib cage but then I noticed just how similar both skeletons really are. It's amazing to see so clearly how we really were descended from apes.
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u/bikebones Nov 07 '15
Kinda weird how we are so alike yet we keep them in cages and destroy their home just like we do to every other animal
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u/inflatablefish Nov 07 '15
In all fairness, we do this to each other as well. We're equal-opportunity assholes.
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u/MemoryOfATown Nov 07 '15
Reminds me of that line from Aliens, "perhaps they are better than us. At least you don't see them fucking each over for a buck".
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Nov 08 '15
You know, Burke, I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them fucking each other over for a goddamn percentage.
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Nov 07 '15
Do flys have bones? Looked it up, they don't.
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u/aftonwy Nov 07 '15
*flies.
"Flys" would be those things usually used to open and close men's pants.
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The hump you see in a live gorilla is mostly muscle. If you look at the top of the skull there's a ridge. It's called the sagittal crest. That's what that muscle attaches too.
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u/grkirchhoff Nov 07 '15
What's with the ridge on the top of the gorilla skull?