Maybe they had much more experience on land, or at the surface, or something other than what's been portrayed so far. How can they breathe air as soon as they step out of the ocean like that? One question is: How can they breathe air? It looks like they emerged from the water, and moved onto land essentially in the current form. So they're an aquatic invertebrate species that started walking around and breathing air. So, again, there doesn't seem to be any evidence that they are mammals at all. They usually have their overalls on but there's a case where you can see them shirtless and it does not look like they have actual nipples, even though they do cover up that region for whatever reason. I did check, and they don't appear to have nipples or a belly button.
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There's nothing else about them that seems remotely mammalian, right? We don't have any evidence to suggest that these aren't just really big bags of jelly as opposed to very complicated skeletal structures with muscles. Maybe it's not hair in the mammalian sense at all, but what are called setae. So I don't think it follows that just because they have a little bit of hair on their head they're necessarily a mammal. There are other examples where things have-quote-"hair." There's a very interesting hairy crab, and some caterpillars look really furry. An octopus can open a jar from the inside and do all kinds of things, and they don't have bones. That doesn't mean that you couldn't have quite capable and dexterous appendages. So it's safe to say what look like fingers are actually tentacles or something? So again, it was just not descended from the same group as the terrestrial vertebrates it looks like they've independently evolved digit-like things. But in this case, it looks like they have had three the whole time. You get three-toed sloths and various other things that have had reductions from the ancestral complement of five digits. You get horses that run around on one toe-they've lost the others. It's really unusual to see a number other than five, right? I guess that could explain why they only have three fingers. You can get some of those traits occurring independently in different lineages, and that is probably the situation with MinionsĪnother three-fingered animal. Fish are vertebrates, but those teeth evolved independently from ours. There's a fish with eerily human-like teeth. Cephalopod mollusks also have complex, camera-type eyes, like we have, but they evolved independently of vertebrates. But we know of features like those evolving independently in different lineages. They have teeth that look like human teeth and eyes that look like human eyes. How do you explain how human they are if they're invertebrates? It looks like they were still kind of their little blobby selves while vertebrates had already evolved, so they don't seem to be descended from early vertebrates. And then they're sort of floating around in that state while you see some fishes and things that are sort of early vertebrates. Gregory was more than willing to help us flesh out a surprisingly plausible evolutionary explanation for these brightly colored little guys.įrom the little bit at the beginning of the new film, they seem to evolve independently from what looks to be a single-celled thing. Ryan Gregory of the University of Guelph in Canada. To find out more, we got in touch with DNA expert and evolutionary biologist T. Then last week, Pierre Coffin acknowledged the unanswered questions when he elaborated a little bit about their origins: They're all male, non-reproducing, and immortal. In either case, things like DNA and cells are clearly involved.
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The official synopsis tells us: "They have evolved from single (yellow) cell organisms into the familiar beings we know, and they live for a collective purpose: to seek out and serve the most despicable master they can find." This contradicts an older official short film that claims, "We are engineered from the same strand of mutated DNA," so presumably that is no longer canonical. That creation myth is rapidly solidifying. In other words, they're not fantasy they're soft science fiction. But instead of waving a wand and saying they were magical, the screenwriters present them as cellular blobs in the ocean, then as terrestrial creatures. The question "What's a minion made of?" could be as silly as asking what continent the Kingdom of Equestria is on.