Darwin Day!

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Happy 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.

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I remember that even Darwin had written things that disagreed with Social Darwinism before anyone even came up with the term. Something along the lines of how the fact that certain traits would be selected above others didn't imply that those traits were more ethically desirable, or that traits more desirable for the survival of an individual weren't always desirable for the survival of a society if they were developed at others' expense. That 'survival of the fittest' was simply a descriptive term, and not a prescriptive one. Would that this addendum to his research had been as well remembered as the rest of it.