Thursday, November 24, 2016

This Thanksgiving (and Evolution Day!) brought to you by the letter M (for mineralization)

This year Thanksgiving serendipitously coincides with Evolution Day (the anniversary of the publication of Darwin's "Origin of Species" in 1859), so it seems *only* appropriate to express our thankfulness for mineralization (which allows fossils to be created from decaying organisms). This played a key role in Darwin developing and proving the theories of evolution.




*Sorry about the audio quality---this was filmed on the fly so we didn't grab a real mic for this little clip. Might fix the sound up and add a couple more informative diagrams later. In the meantime, enjoy that Thanksgiving dino-descendant turkey with a side of Darwin!

1 comment:

  1. We hope you enjoy this short clip on Evolution Day, the anniversary of Darwin's "Origin of Species" (which happened to coincide with Thanksgiving this year!).
    It was fun to film ;) ... took about 30 seconds longer *to plan and film* than the entire vid takes to watch!
    We just had the urge to share with all of you our thankfulness for mineralization! ;)

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