Happy Birthday, Chuck!

Image from Shimer
http://www.shimer.edu/admissions/dialectic-natural-sciences.cfm

Dear Charles Darwin,
Thanks for your contributions to science.
You are the bomb!
Without your insights, I probably wouldn't have been contemplating the phylogeny of fishes and seagrasses this week. Heck, we'd probably still be trying to figure out how all those animals fit in that damn ark...and what the hell did the fish do once they were nestled in their staterooms??? Poor little guys. I know you weren't so popular in your time for the views you expressed, but how right you were, and are even more so today. Thanks for your keen eye, meticulous observations and notes, and ability to weave it all together.
Happy Birthday!
Cheers!
The Saline Canine and Friends


For more on Darwin and his observations of nature, try "The Google" or start with Olivia Judson's editorial.

And for those of you still trying to cram every species onto the ark, I (with the help of the editors) offer up these 15 Evolutionary Gems for you, from Nature (they must be serious, they made it free and accessible!)--happy reading and let me know if you see the light!

Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii