Quote:It is becoming difficult to simplify this to a point where you have a remote chance of vaguely understanding it. Fucking children can understand it. But not you.
I was able to grasp the basics of selection vs mutation by the time I was about 7 years old. Most of the sheep we raised were Highland Blackface, but every spring some of the lambs were born with either mottled or pure white faces. I asked my Da why that was, and he very patiently explained it to me in a way I could understand.
Then again, I was fortunate in having a father who wasn’t a science-denying, Bible-thumping religious lunatic. This may have been an unfair advantage.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
