The Lurgey, proof Darwin was wrong.

In terms, I feel I'm a neo-darwinist. This means little to most people, and a lot to certain feminist factions who thought they had seen off biological determinism only to have it brought back in the last few years. They're all angry that we could even think men and women are different. They have a point, politically, I think we make a better case, factually.

Anyway, I write about horizontal gene transfer. Darwin tells us that genes within us are rigid, unchangeable things, and the change comes through time via selective breeding. So; giraffes were animals with short necks, then one came along with a slightly longer one and could reach leaves higher up and didn't have to share with all the weird yellow horses. He got big and attractive and all the lady giraffes wanted his kids and so they did. A new generation of slightly longer necked kids were born, more able than the other kids from other giraffes, looked better in a necklace. But one of those kids and an even longer neck, and so it went on and on until today, where we have these fucking ridiculous animals you see looking so depressed in zoos.

But then there are weird cases, where 2 groups of animals evolve at the same time, completely separate. There was a case for monkeys in south Asia using tools for the first time, then all of a sudden, monkeys from a similar family hundreds of miles away suddenly also started using the same tools in the same way to the same effect. There was no contact, no selective breeding, so what could have happened? Some scientists say this is proof that genes are linked like, well, the Internet, and progress can be effected by one person in the Internet gene pool changing behaviour or making a discovery.

In fact, at exact same time Darwin was making his discoveries, another bloke made the exact same breakthrough. Weird huh?

I'm not saying this is true, all I'm saying is that I think it's what's going on in Heroes right now. They're going to discover there's some kind of horizontal gene transfer thing, and this weird theory is going to be thrown into the realms of science fiction. A good realm to be in quite frankly, science fiction buffs are the scientists of tomorrow, and the obsessive compulsive weirdos that are still trying to build teleporters.

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