Grad student proves one of Darwin's theories almost 140 years after his death

[pesco]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/03/19/grad-student-proves-one-of-dar.html

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[KingGhidorah]

And he doesn’t even get to say “I told you so”

[CongenitalOptimist]

Humans have no subspecies.

I beg to differ:

[rob_bray]

Lotta people going to be winning Darwin Awards over the next few weeks I expect. He always has the last laugh

[bryan]

How did the grad student die?

[Bobo]

Homo sapiens sapiens subsp. dumbassus?

[NoThisIsPatrick]

we are alone

[hecep]

@KingGhidorah

And he doesn’t even get to say “I told you so”

One could teach one of the Galapagos parakeets to say it. That would drive Creationists over the edge.

[Brainspore]

@bryan

How did the grad student die?

You don’t prove Darwin right by dying, you prove Darwin right by successfully gettin’ it on.

[Aleqi]

Very cool! Dolphins and cuttlefish would run the world but that can not smelt anything in the seas, you know.

[anon47741163]

Yeah, I don’t want to know how she died, as much as I want to know how her ghost managed to prove Darwin right a century and a half after she died.

[euansmith]

Humanity has two subspecies: Us and Them.

[DesultoryPolemic]

This means when we fill out our census, everyone should scroll down to “Race Other” and type in “HUMAN” .