Re: [Paddlewise] Natural Selection at Work

From: Bradford R. Crain <crainb_at_pdx.edu>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:30:56 -0800
   I recall vividly skiing across a snow-covered lake in Yellowstone 
National
   Park in mid-winter, fully convinced the lake was frozen solid. It wasn't.
   I'm around today only because Darwin wasn't ready to give me my award 
yet.

   Brad

>I think back to my earlier days. Chances I took. Hmmm. The problem wasn't
> that I was an idiot. The problem was I didn't know I was an idiot.
>
> Doug Lloyd
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Niels Blaauw <niels_at_nibla.nl> wrote:
>
>>
>> You'd better beware, Craig, or Darwin might catch up with _you_!
>>
>   Craig said:

> It's too late. Natural selection is done with us once we are no longer
> "breeding". I have been done with that ever since my wife had me and the 
> cat
> fixed on the same trip to town. And I have a catnip toy around here
> somewhere to prove it. :P
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