Happy belated Darwin's birthday!

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I couldn't think of anything to say to celebrate Darwin's birthday(*) when it happened. But better late than never, a vid which illustrates with educational clarity where we stand in the evolutionary chain:

Unnatural Selection: Battlestar Galactica, Terminator

(*)That's the scientist, not the city. Which makes me wonder when Perth's birthday is...

Comments

[ataxi.livejournal.com]

I think on Darwin's anniversary it would be nice to remember the abolitionist, antiracist subtext in Darwin's work. Darwin came from a family of vehement anti-slavery activists and in his work, the science met neatly with the ethics to dismiss the thuggery of racial essentialism.

Go Darwin.

[penchaft.livejournal.com]

12th of June, sez Wikipedia.

Discovery Channel had a really neat ad for Darwin Month. I'm so sad it's not on YT.

[penchaft.livejournal.com]

I dreamed that you were part of a group trying to get LJ to give chronic fatigue sufferers an extra icon so you could have a CFS icon and all your other ones.

[ataxi.livejournal.com]

I think on Darwin's anniversary it would be nice to remember the abolitionist, antiracist subtext in Darwin's work. Darwin came from a family of vehement anti-slavery activists and in his work, the science met neatly with the ethics to dismiss the thuggery of racial essentialism.

Go Darwin.

[penchaft.livejournal.com]

12th of June, sez Wikipedia.

Discovery Channel had a really neat ad for Darwin Month. I'm so sad it's not on YT.

[penchaft.livejournal.com]

I dreamed that you were part of a group trying to get LJ to give chronic fatigue sufferers an extra icon so you could have a CFS icon and all your other ones.