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Darwin Day!
Feb. 12th, 2010 06:00 pmHappy Darwin Day, dudes! I’m celebrating by focusing my worldbuilding on animals—that is, giving one of my alien species, the orlys, some good old-fashioned evolutionary borking,* and I’m designing plants and animals like mad. Perhaps when I acquire a scanner that isn’t broken beyond all repair, I will show you!
Biology is one of the coolest subjects you can study. And thanks to Darwin, it makes a lot more sense, and gets a lot more interesting to boot. So a high-five to the good naturalist, and a wing-five to the finches and pigeons who gave him the idea. It’s a doozy.
*I’m making their trunk serve as both a proboscis and as a main manipulating appendage. At least they don’t have the earthly land vertebrate design flaw where they have to breathe, eat, and talk through the same orifice. Way to cut corners, evolution.
Biology is one of the coolest subjects you can study. And thanks to Darwin, it makes a lot more sense, and gets a lot more interesting to boot. So a high-five to the good naturalist, and a wing-five to the finches and pigeons who gave him the idea. It’s a doozy.
*I’m making their trunk serve as both a proboscis and as a main manipulating appendage. At least they don’t have the earthly land vertebrate design flaw where they have to breathe, eat, and talk through the same orifice. Way to cut corners, evolution.
