Mickey Z

Cool Observer

Friday, September 08, 2006

The evolution will be televised (and maybe podcast, too)

Mark Twain sez: “Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.”

Observation. There is perhaps no more valuable tool in the world of science. Ask Darwin. He did all right for himself observing finches, didn’t he? Or ask Marcel Proust. The writer everyone pretends to read said: “The true voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”

What I’ve recently observed with my very own “new eyes” is an expeditious evolution defying all previous postulations on how quickly a species can mutate, adapt, and evolve. In terms of daily habits, it’s obvious from even the most tertiary scrutiny that Homo sapiens have undergone a fair amount of evolution, since 1945 or so. Thus, it is in the spirit of open-minded observers—from Galileo to Stephen Colbert—that I some elementary observations:

To read those observations, click here.

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