Administrative So I says.. 5 May 200918 Sep 2017 I told ’em! I told ’em! So I did. Millennium hand and shrimp! Read More
Evolution Cleesing the God Gene 14 Sep 2008 If I weren’t such a reductionist mechanist, I’d probably find this very very funny. And what Cleese does to things deserves its own verb. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M-vnmejwXo&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&fs=1] Read More
Ecology and Biodiversity On speciation 26 Jun 200922 Jun 2018 The Atavism has some thoughts on speciation in response to a high school teacher’s query. He uses the following nice diagram to indicate what some of the core species definitions mean: It’s neat, and therefore… wrong. By which I mean that given the rule that biological organisms do what they… Read More
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.
Yes. Somebody queried who Snowflake was, and I realised it was a bit confusing. Fortunately, not many people are called John…