Species Concept Fail
Filed under Humor, Species concept
Filed under Humor, Species concept
Melbourne-based, Sydney affiliated historian and philosopher of science, especially biology. Apple tragic. Pratchett fan. Curmudgeon. Punster. Fatso.
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The first thing that comes to my mind is the expression ‘Lord love a duck,’ or in this case, giraffe love a duck.
Thank you for introducing me to Cyanide and Happiness Comics.
What’s particularly amusing about this is that it reinvents the medieval conception of how species came to be. The giraffe, ironically, was thought itself to be a hybrid of the camel and the leopard, which explains its medieval name cameleopard – true story.
John
What happened to “Snowflake”? Did you change your nom de plume?
Yes. Somebody queried who Snowflake was, and I realised it was a bit confusing. Fortunately, not many people are called John…