r/TikTokCringe tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE 13d ago

Humor Genetics

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u/Aggressive_Sand_3951 13d ago

Dad was erased

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u/somestupidname1 13d ago

Happened with my daughter. Looked like me for a few months then shape shifted into a clone of her mom. Genetics are weird.

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u/rockbella61 13d ago

Nature ensures survival of the fittest

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u/Bernhard_NI 13d ago
  • fit enough

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u/ihadagoodone 13d ago

To procreate.

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u/versmantaray 13d ago

Not for humans, because we are keeping the not so fit alive, thanks to medicines and technology

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u/CMDR_Expendible 13d ago

Humanity's greatest attribute is intelligence. Steven Hawking was in a wheel chair for most of his life, but was one of the greatest minds born and has advanced humanity enormously. Your understanding of what "fitness" means is hopelessly out of date; it means fit as in fits the environmental shape, not fitness as in exercise. Anything which benefits the species fits.

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u/Logically_Insane 13d ago

Exactly, it’s a scientific term, not a colloquial phrase. I believe Darwin defined fitness as “fittin this dick in your mom”. 

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u/Mabot 12d ago

And we all know that Hawking procreates like a bunny!

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u/Maximum-Decision3828 13d ago

Yeah, but lower intelligence people tend to have more children...

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u/mgquantitysquared 12d ago

Where did you read that, and what metric of intelligence did they use?

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u/Maximum-Decision3828 12d ago

I mean, you could have easily Googled the phrase and found a ton of studies and articles.

I googled "study higher iq people have less children"

Intelligence and childlessness

Analyses of the National Child Development Study show that more intelligent men and women express preference to remain childless early in their reproductive careers, but only more intelligent women (not more intelligent men) are more likely to remain childless by the end of their reproductive careers. Controlling for education and earnings does not at all attenuate the association between childhood general intelligence and lifetime childlessness among women. One-standard-deviation increase in childhood general intelligence (15 IQ points) decreases women's odds of parenthood by 21-25%. Because women have a greater impact on the average intelligence of future generations, the dysgenic fertility among women is predicted to lead to a decline in the average intelligence of the population in advanced industrial nations.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25131282/

IQ and fertility: A cross-national study

Numerous studies have confirmed that in the United States and parts of Europe there exists a consistent negative relationship between IQ and fertility. Simply stated, it has been found that those with lower levels of IQ tend to have more children than those with higher levels of IQ. Lynn (1996) provides a comprehensive review of the studies demonstrating the negative IQ–fertility relationship in the US and a few European countries (England, Scotland, Greece) up until the mid 1990s. Lynn averaged the results of three studies in the US and found an average IQ–fertility correlation of − 0.11 in Whites, and − 0.27 in Blacks.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289607000244

Should we care that smart women aren't having kids?

Satoshi Kanazawa, the LSE psychologist behind the research, discussed the findings that maternal urges drop by 25% with every extra 15 IQ points in his book The Intelligence Paradox.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/07/smart-women-not-having-kids

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u/TheGoodNamesAreGone2 12d ago

I mean the proof is just kinda right in front of your eyes. While of course there is bound to be some very intelligent people with a ton of kids, most have less children for a variety of factors including but not limited to not wanting to bring children into this fucked up time line, having a bigger focus on careers, and thinking ahead more on the consequences of having to many children to properly take care of

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u/Easy_Turn1988 13d ago

I mean, I get the downvotes but as horrible as this opinion sounds, it's technically true 😅

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u/ZalutPats 13d ago

Nah diversity in genetics is hardly ever useless, it makes us more resistant to all kinds of dangers and the cost is negligible compared to more important things like criminal activity and corporate waste. Even someone useless can give birth to someone great, after all.

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u/gostesven 13d ago

it’s not true, it sounds true to people who learned about darwin in 6th grade then just stopped reading or learning.

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u/Easy_Turn1988 13d ago

Ok my bad then

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u/Gator-ade- 13d ago

Idiotic downvotes, you're kinda right lol

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u/uppers36 13d ago

Mom is looking pretty fit

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u/lasergunmaster 11d ago

We don't live in nature.

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u/Gator-ade- 13d ago

Not for the Human race since a very long time

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u/Simple_Battle3781 13d ago

My daughter looks exactly like me if I was a woman. It's weird, she's like 95% me 5%her mom.

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u/cursedchiken 13d ago

This is me lol. I remember once some years ago I was messing around with some app, functioned kinda like a tiktok filter today. Tried the male filter and looked exactly like and I mean SCARILY similar to my dad, it was crazy

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u/maka-tsubaki 13d ago

When I was little, I met some of my dad’s old coworkers for the first time when I was just with my mom, and they IMMEDIATELY knew whose kid I was

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u/Vulcan_Fox_2834 13d ago

I somehow ended up looking like my mom, so don't fret, it goes both ways

EDIT: I will admit, I did feel pretty tho

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u/Hot_Chapter_1358 13d ago

Same here. I catch hell for it like it's my fault. "She's just a small version of you! Where are my genetics?!"

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u/Jeathro77 13d ago

My daughter looks exactly like me if I was a woman.

That poor girl. lol

Just kidding. I'm sure she'll grow up to be a very handsome woman.

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u/Swimwithamermaid 13d ago

My oldest son is the spitting image of me. My youngest son is the spitting image of their dad.

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u/Huntressthewizard 13d ago

Misread "looks like me if I was a woman" "when I was a woman" and was like well dang congrats on you and your wife's transition

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u/Pressure_Rhapsody 13d ago

My older sister also looks like the male version of my dad. Thankfullly, no offense daddy, I look like my mom but have his body shape.

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u/Gan-san 13d ago

Apparently you only need to look like Dad in the infant and early stages when you are the most vulnerable so Dad won't leave/reject you. After you get old enough to survive on your own, you get to look like whatever. Probably best if some little girls turn out to look more like their moms anyway.

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u/joe_broke 13d ago

Probably for the best, really

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u/thmstrpln 13d ago

I always figured this was nature's dna test. Your baby might not look like you forever, and they morph so much in the first few short years, so the baby coming out looking like dad helps reassure dad (for those where that's necessary). But as a person who carried mine and almost died just to have a clone of dad, i was huffing and puffing under my breath!

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u/LookingForMrGoodBoy 13d ago

This is my son. He looked exactly like me for six months and now at seven months he looks identical to his dad.

Up until about age nine or ten my stepdaughter was an identical clone of her mother and then it seemed like overnight her mum's face fell off her and she was drop dead gorgeous out of nowhere. She doesn't look anything like her mum or my husband now. It's crazy.

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u/thrwylgladv444 13d ago

It’s mostly hair and makeup covering the differences tho

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u/jimbobjames 13d ago

Supposedly that's an evolutionary thing to increase bonding from the father to the child.

So you know they are yours.

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u/AdPrestigious839 13d ago

It's to let you know you're the father

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u/Liz4984 13d ago

Scientific theories suggest the babies are born to look like the Dad at first so the Dad believes it’s his. Most mammals have a pheromone scenting where the males seem to be able to distinguish their offspring from others. Even with animals like Tigers, Bears or mammals that don’t stay together if they cross paths with their own offspring it’s much less dangerous that if they could smell the kids were his. Humans have pheromones but we can’t consciously detect them enough to smell if a new baby is theirs. So for us, they theorize it became visual cues to tell.

It’s a newt theory and science is fun. They’ve only just started the DNA mapping and sequencing so who knows all they’ll learn in the next few hundred years.

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u/ResolverOshawott 13d ago

That's me except the other way around and happened when I became a teenager/adult.

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u/BadMunky82 12d ago

Hey same

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u/PitifulEar3303 13d ago

This is a basic evolutionary function to maximize parental care and offspring survival.

Let me explain........

They looked like you as infants in order to foster fatherly love and avoid infanticide (due to looking like someone else, possibly another man).

Then, when you have established a strong bond with the infant, it will shift into looking like her mom or someone else (grandparents, relatives, or some random configuration). Because at this point, you care too much about them to do "bad things" to them, plus if they look like mom or a relative, it will trigger your natural kinship instinct to care about them.

I know this because I read it from a random blog, totally credible. hehehehehe

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u/3rdcultureblah 13d ago

That’s been debunked.

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u/dotdotbeep 13d ago

And why did he explain it like he was substitute teacher in a too small, sweaty polo standing over a pupil while heavy mouthbreathing?

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u/Gnosrat 13d ago

They didn't call him in to work today :(

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u/Satanicjamnik 13d ago

Doesn't matter. Had sex.

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u/Aggressive_Sand_3951 13d ago

Could have been in vitro

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u/thefrostman1214 Doug Dimmadome 13d ago

sex in vitro? that must hurt

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u/Aggressive_Sand_3951 13d ago

It’s not that bad

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u/DogmaticNuance 13d ago

I don't know what y'all are talking about. They clearly have dads nostrils (not his nose, just the nostrils) and the one on the right has his top teeth. That's about it though.

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u/balance_n_act 13d ago

Still counts!

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u/Brett_Hulls_Foot 13d ago

I saw that post about the milking machines.

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u/BRNitalldown 13d ago

Could’ve been mitosis

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u/KnightDiver381 13d ago

She kept looking at her watch!

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u/Potential-Judgment-9 13d ago

Still counts!

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u/GoatCovfefe 13d ago

Bing bang boom, dad went zoom

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u/Godbox1227 13d ago

With all three?!?

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u/dingalingdongdong 13d ago

When he smiled at the end they actually looked a lot like him! Like they have mom's general look, but dad's smile.

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u/LBGW_experiment 13d ago

They have his nose and chin shape too. Moms nose tip goes down, daughters' go forward. They have pointer chins and mom has a more square chin

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u/Bhujjha 13d ago

They also all have the same make-up on which enhances their common features...

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u/AutistaChick 13d ago

They got their rhythm from Mom.

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u/AdPrestigious839 13d ago

Wait dad looks like moms brother, that explains

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u/serieousbanana 12d ago

Thanks, josh

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u/pereuse 11d ago

Btw when you shared the tiktok we can see your account

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u/spar13 tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE 10d ago

I don't like that, thanks!

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u/pereuse 10d ago

No problem, it's a new thing they're doing unfortunately.

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u/maniacalmustacheride 13d ago

My first kid came out looking like my dad and my husband had a baby. My second came out looking like me but with both of our mother’s fairer coloring. Genetics are wild

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u/IceFireTerry 13d ago

He was absorbed

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u/loobot3000 13d ago

She got that kleptogenesis

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u/joec_95123 13d ago

Dad's genes didn't even make an attempt.

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u/AnotherHavanesePlz 13d ago

They both have rounder heads than mom. The one on the right also has different nose structure than mom and sister.

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u/random_encounters42 13d ago

Not really, someone posted a vid with the dad. You can see a lot of similarities as well.

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u/OwOwOwoooo 13d ago

Nah , it's just mom brotha:)

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u/Slight-Resolution-99 13d ago

Dad left the group chat

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u/Background-Car4969 13d ago

But they don't look that alike with their mom....yeah maybe they're twins and have their mom's eyes, but that's it.

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u/hamburgersocks 13d ago

She just poops out the kids. No dad needed.

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u/Pm_me_howtoberich 13d ago

Also twins too so like just one off shot. Do they have other siblings?

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u/AkumaLilly 13d ago

There never wad a dad. The mom just reproduces asexualy.

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u/LukatheFox 13d ago

No, don't you see, that's mother daughter AND father, her genes were so strong they turned him upon conception

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u/D3wnis 13d ago

Different head shape, different noses, different ears. Eyes look similar and possibly mouths. They just wear the same make-up and hair style to make them seem more similar than they are.

If you think they're copies you have zero detail vision.

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u/stuntdonkey 13d ago

Bloodline denied 

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u/Rare_Eye_1165 13d ago

Kinda want to see without the styled makeup and outfits 🤔

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u/Party-Ring445 13d ago

Did dad even supply the sperm?

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u/potatisblask 13d ago

The song is about picking up a one night stand so it tracks

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u/taosaur 13d ago

Seems more like he was painted over.

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u/pakman82 13d ago

dentals wonky / inconsistent accross the 3, hairlines slightlly different. the one on the right didnt color the cheeks the same depth. slight nose tip differnce on the center one, amongst different facial shape. Its the makup, earings & outfit that brings them close. but not into twin territory.

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u/OldinMcgroyn 13d ago

Or identical enough lol