Olduvai George shows how to illustrate evolution , with pictures of Eusthenopteron, Pachyaena, and a thylacine.
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Below the fold is video from 1933 of the last Tasmanian tiger, the thylacine. Thylacines, now extinct, were carnivorous marsupials that inhabited Tasmania until they were wiped out by a human campaign of extermination that lasted through the nineteenth and into the twentieth centuries, although…
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Pharyngula, it's Olduvai Gorge. Olduvai GEORGE is our current president when he insists on the teaching of intelligent design.
On behalf of hominids everywhere, I resent the comparison of GW to our earlier relatives, with the implication that because of their earliness they would act in a similar manner to GW. I prefer to think of GW as someone who consciously chooses to reject truth, justice and the American way.
GW rejects Superman?
A little common sense here please... You have to be able to read comics to be cognizant of Superman.