If people had wings and could fly it would be considered exercise and nobody would do it.

Behold, a feathered biped

Between this, my stripes, and my tail.. all things I have genes for, but no activation...

I'm kinda pissed, being human could be far less cringe

I’m good on the feathers I read the goosebumps book about learning to fly and it gave me a preview of my trypophobia when R.L. Stine described the feathers growing out of the main characters skin

ETA: it was “chicken chicken” not “how I learned to fly”

MF walking one way into getting a pile of teratomas

My guess is they mean we have the genes to encode the proteins, since we have similar keratinized tissues like hair and nails. But probably not the hox genes to encode the structure

Stunning creatures, sea lions.

Wonderful plumage.

Fierce Creatures (1997)

This sounds like a fun PhD project

I want the damn feathers for the social aspect! If we were allowed to preen each other, the world would be a better place!

While we're on the topic, we all have very slightly webbed digits, multiple involuntary reflexes for when we get wet, and a nasal/respiratory system that is (partially) adapted to swimming. I wonder how far our DNA could be pushed to pad out what was started here?

Quick someone get CRSIPR therapy

What does that even mean, you have like “four letters” and dna strands of millions long. Like how selective do you have to be. I’m sure you can basically write anything that way.

Are there entire chunks that are inactive that would give feathers, that at some point gave feathers to our ancestors?

I'll settle for hair regrowth.

Now go into a forrest with flint and boom

infinite ammo

Is this true ? It doesn't feel true with my current knowledge.