Dingo the Dissident

THE BLOG OF DISQUIET : Qweir Notions, an uncommonplace-book from the Armpit of Diogenes, binge-thinker jottings since 2008 .

Monday 22 July 2013

Steve Jones *

(described as being Wallace **
to Richard Dawkins' Gromit)
succinctly outlined Evolution on the radio
as 'A series of successful mistakes'.
He meant natural experiments, of course.
The case of Homo sapiens sapiens, however,
might better be described as
unsuccessful and unnatural divorce.

 *Geneticist and Fellow of the Royal Society.
**Pun.

1 comment:

Karl said...

'Successful'. People's self-love is boundless.