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Re: Ear-hurting grammar bone pick

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I understand that the urge to commit irony might have been too great to pass up.

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Yup. Thanks for your understanding.Technically, there were two errors, counting the failure to hyphenate "ear hurting." But these are the ironies of a former liberal arts grad student overcompensating in a science forum.I agree with your initial observation: the bad "mood" hurts the ear.

I recall watching my nieces, nephews, and grandchildren laughing and clapping with delight when they saw some of the amazing film footage of hippos underwater--who would have thought they could move with such grace?

Thank you, nwr. I think the evidence he drew from animal husbandry is often overlooked, though not because Darwin doesn't lay it all out. The very fact that we can make changes to our liking in domesticated animals was staggering when exmained in the scientific context of origins.I have often resented the mischaracterization of Darwin's work. As early as the late 1830s, decades before publishing, he began corresponding with the world animal husbandry--pet breeders, livestock breeders, and animal experts of all sorts.Rarely has a life's work been so methodically and meticulously researched and thought out. He knew what profound impact his observations and conclusions would have, and he was in no hurry to usher them out of the conseravtory and into the world.Herepton, it's one thing to disagree with Darwin, it's another to slander one of humankind's most original thinkers for that reason alone. It required an honesty of epic proportions for Darwin not to flinch from his central insights.This message has been edited by Omnivorous, 09-03-2005 01:19 AM