Happy Darwin Day 2011 everyone

[HarveyDarkey]

[rug]

1. Hasn't changed much in ten years.

[JitterbugPerfume]

2. my hero

[wizstars]

3. K & R!! Happy Darwin Day all!!

http://www.darwinday.org/

[GeorgeGist]

4. From what I've been told ...

most Americans aren't fit to celebrate Darwin's discovery.

[Archae]

5. Even Darwin made some dandy mistakes.

As do all scientists.

Darwin thought whales were descended from bears, after he watched a polar bear swimming.

[SDuderstadt]

6. Unless you're being facetious...

I rather doubt your claim.

Could you provide some evidence he ever did that?

[Archae]

7. I'd have to look it up again...

I read it in an article somewhere, about how Darwin did make a few mistakes.

Nothing really bad.

[SDuderstadt]

8. I doubt seriously that he believed...

whales were descended from polar bears, dude.

[Archae]

9. Found it.

I listed the wrong bear.


In his Origin of Species, Darwin notes a case of a black bear swimming for hours with its mouth agape, catching aquatic insects much as a whale might feed. "I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale," he speculated.

The ridicule and attacks engendered by this passage grew to such a pitch that Darwin pared it down and then deleted it altogether in later editions.

Although Darwin got the particulars wrong, his swimming-bear scenario was not far off the mark. Modern molecular biologists say that they now have the unassailable evidence to track whales' origins among four-legged mammals.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_19_156/ai_57828404/

[lunatica]

10. Darwin and God art

[Skidmore]

11. I have a little grandson who is

named after the great man.

[sarcasmo]

12. Kick.