🦥🇩🇪🌞 Megatherium germanicum heliophilum - the sun-loving giant sloth from Germany.

☘️ In recent posts, I've shown you living fossils - the ginkgo and the magnolias. The term "living fossil" is actually avoided in science because it's very superficial. It essentially refers to morphological characteristics.

🧬 If we look deeper, all living things are simultaneously living fossils and then again not, because our characteristics go beyond our appearance.

🧠 Take my ADHD, a neurological abnormality, for example, and follow current knowledge, then ADHD is partly a living fossil: the genetic component is a relic from hunter-gatherer cultures, or even dates back much further. ADHD is therefore referred to as an evolutionary maladaptation because it has advantages in nomadic cultures but disadvantages in a sedentary lifestyle.

🏚⛺️ However, some futurologists assume that humans will return to a nomadic lifestyle once the resources to maintain our civilization are no longer available.

🪸 We carry characteristics that developed billions of years ago. But we have also evolved, and so we are all interwoven between past, present, and future.

🪱 Each of us, whether earthworm or rocket scientist, is equally wonderful and deserving of a future.

🌞 On the topic of future prospects: This March was the warmest in Europe since records began.

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Sunbathing at 9° Celsius! 🌬🌡🌞

😜 According to the weather app, it felt like 6° Celsius. But for me, it felt like summer!

😅🔥 It wasn't until I returned to the apartment two hours later that I realized it must have been quite cold after all. I was hit by such a rush of warmth that it almost felt like a sauna. In fact, today was the coolest temperature I've ever dared to go outside shirtless for an extended period of time.

⚠️👵 My neighbor, a woman well into retirement, looked at me very critically (I could see it in the background of a selfie). I'm sure I'll soon be told how dangerous that is in this chilly wind. But I'm curious and hungry for the sun. I want to expose my body to different stimuli.

🏕🏖 This year, after 23 years, I'm going back to my favorite North Sea island, Baltrum, where the climate is fantastic. But this time I'm camping! I'm already looking forward to the pleasure of swimming in the cold seawater and drying off in the sun in the salty wind. Of course, it might just rain—but that's just how it is.

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😜🦥🌞 I'm a cheeky sloth who lazes around in the sun!

In Germany, winter often changes into spring from one day to the next. Ten days ago I was still wearing my beanie and winter jacket and today I've been bathing in the sun shirtless for five days in a row. I've missed it a lot! I feel completely different with the light, the warmth and the birdsong. Soon the trees will have leaves again, scents will flood my senses and make everything seem fertile and alive.

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