June 15, 2006
YOU CAN'T STACK THE HILARITY THAT HIGH WITHOUT IT TIPPING (via The Other Brother):
Two Butterfly Species Evolved Into Third, Study Finds (James Owen, June 14, 2006, National Geographic News)
A butterfly species from South America has been revealed as nature's answer to Frankenstein's monster, scientists say.New research shows the insect was originally created from two different butterflies in an evolutionary process many biologists didn't think possible.
The scientists arrived at this conclusion by successfully re-creating the butterfly in the lab, using "second-hand parts" from two related species.
Animals are thought usually to evolve in the opposite manner, when a single species gradually splits into two over many generations. [...]
While the butterfly is able to breed with one of its parent species, "heurippa much prefers to breed with itself," Jiggins said.
So, almost two hundred years into the Darwinian dead end they've arrived at the shocking revelation that within a genus stuff can breed pretty freely and and make other stuff that breeds rather easily. Heck, the farmers told Darwin that. Posted by Orrin Judd at June 15, 2006 7:52 AM
This a joke right? An Onion article? Seriously.
Posted by: Shelton at June 15, 2006 10:03 AMspe·cies (spē'shēz, -sēz) pronunciation
n., pl. species. 1. Biology. Something that is a species.
C'mon, we're not falling for that, there's no such thing as species.
Posted by: oj at June 15, 2006 11:27 AMClearly, Darwin should have called his book Origin of Genera.
Posted by: Joseph Hertzlinger at June 15, 2006 12:32 PMIt all sounds pretty specious to me.