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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What if you take off the costume? Humans aren't entirely bilaterally symmetrical (at least not on the inside) and obviously not radially symmetrical so the paradox continues.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Is any animal perfectly bilaterally symmetrical?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

[Obligatory] Your mom.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I... I don't get it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Their mom definitely got it... Slam! with the alley-oop!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Might be, but she gives it to everyone else

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Planaria?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Humans are definitely bilaterally symmetrical. Symmetry doesn't have to be a perfect mirror image in biology.