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This single-panel comic shows a family gathered around a Thanksgiving dinner table with a roasted turkey, saying grace. Instead of thanking God for the meal, the patriarch offers a scientifically accurate but absurdly reframed prayer: "And we wish to thank evolution for slowly turning some species of dinosaur into a walking ball of meat with a tiny head."

The humor works on several levels. First, it replaces the traditional religious Thanksgiving prayer with a secular, evolutionary one, which is already a comedic subversion. Second, the description of a turkey as a descendant of dinosaurs that evolution shaped into "a walking ball of meat with a tiny head" is technically accurate -- birds are indeed descended from theropod dinosaurs, and turkeys have been selectively bred to be extremely round and meaty -- but framing it this way makes evolution sound like it was deliberately working toward creating the perfect Thanksgiving dinner.

The votey panel drives the point home with an illustration of an absurdly rotund turkey -- essentially a giant sphere of meat on tiny legs with a minuscule head -- visually confirming just how accurately the prayer described the end product of millions of years of evolution (and centuries of selective breeding).