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tblue37

(65,226 posts) Tue Mar 22, 2022, 12:54 PM Mar 2022

Brain freeze:

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Brain freeze: (Original Post) tblue37 Mar 2022 OP

Either parallel evolution or deep deep DNA Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2022 #1

And then there is this I_UndergroundPanther Mar 2022 #2

wish I could go back 60 years and get a video of our raccoon getting brain freeze from ice cream.... lastlib Mar 2022 #3

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,955 posts)

1. Either parallel evolution or deep deep DNA

Reply to tblue37 (Original post)

Tue Mar 22, 2022, 12:57 PM

Mar 2022

Shaking head to communicate "no" would seem to be common to mammals and ostriches, indicating a trait encoded in DNA going back to before the bird line and mammal lines split, somewhere in reptiles.

Or, perhaps more likely, parallel evolution.

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,462 posts)

2. And then there is this

Reply to tblue37 (Original post)

Tue Mar 22, 2022, 02:46 PM

Mar 2022

lastlib

(23,152 posts)

3. wish I could go back 60 years and get a video of our raccoon getting brain freeze from ice cream....