I fuckin' god-damned love the concept of evolution, man. I love this shit hard. On top of the fact that the science behind evolutionary theory and evolutionary biology is interesting as fuck, an added factor of interest is that
so many people don't understand it, therefore they don't believe it, despite it being a verifiable fact of life. This has driven me to memorize as much as I can about the subject because while i've seen many people argue over opinions, i've never seen so many people so staunchly opposed to a fact.
I had a pretty solid secular education, despite my parent's best attempts otherwise, as well as being in a northern extension of the Bible belt. So I had accepted evolution as a fact without truly understanding it up until sometime in 2006, when DJ FC publicly shamed my ignorance on this very board somewhere and I started looking further into the matter. Since then i've become familiarized with it enough the point of seriously considering going back to get another Undergrad in evolutionary biology, but that's another story.
Anyways this thread is about evolution. I am constantly reading up about it as it gives me the biggest science boner out of the entire field of science, so i'll try to update here often. Feel free to do the same.
If you're looking for some reading on the subject, I highly recommend these two books:
I just started The Origin of Species as well.
Humorous Icebreaker:
Srs Business:
Decent History channel segment on the descent of man:
Ape to Man
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