FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:33 AM Subject: The Origin of Species Drinking Game To: [email protected]
A former student alerted me to the following (source is the Feb. 12, 2009 [Darwin Day] post on http://capacioushandbag.blogspot.com/): I just invented the Origin of Species drinking game. Each player has to read out a whole sentence from the book without stopping for breath. If they can't do it, they take a swig and try the next sentence instead. If they can, the book passes to the next player. It'll go like this: Player 1: "Finally, then, I conclude that the greater variability of specific characters, or those which distinguish species from species, than of generic characters, or those which are possessed by all the species; that the frequent extreme variability of any part which is developed in a species in an extraordinary manner in comparison with the same part in its congeners; and the slight degree of variability in a part, however extraordinarily it may be developed, if it be common to a whole group of species; that the great variability of secondary sexual characters and their great difference in closely allied species; that secondary sexual and ordinary specific differences are generally displayed in the same parts of the organisation, are all..." (Drink) "All being mainly due to the species of the same group being the descendants of a common progenitor, from whom they have inherited much in common, to parts which have recently and largely varied being more likely still to go on varying than parts which have long been inherited and have not varied, to natural selection having more or less completely, according to the lapse of time, overmastered the tendency to reversion and to further variability, to sexual selection being less rigid than ordinary selection, and to variations in the same parts having been accumulated by natural and sexual selection, and thus having been adapted for secondary sexual, and.." (Drink) Let me know if you try it and survive. Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. Email: [email protected] Phone: 301-405-4084 Office: Centreville 1216 Senior Lecturer, Vertebrate Paleontology Dept. of Geology, University of Maryland http://www.geol.umd.edu/~tholtz/ Fax: 301-314-9661 Faculty Director, Earth, Life & Time Program, College Park Scholars http://www.geol.umd.edu/~jmerck/eltsite/ Faculty Director, Science & Global Change Program, College Park Scholars http://www.geol.umd.edu/sgc Fax: 301-314-9843 Mailing Address: Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. Department of Geology Building 237, Room 1117 University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 USA -- Malcolm L. McCallum Associate Professor of Biology Texas A&M University-Texarkana Editor, Herpetological Conservation and Biology http://www.herpconbio.org http://www.twitter.com/herpconbio Fall Teaching Schedule & Office Hours: Landscape Ecology: T,R 10-11:40 pm Environmental Physiology: MW 1-2:40 pm Seminar: T 2:30-3:30pm Genetics: M 6-10pm Office Hours: M 3-6, T: 12-2, W: 3-4 1880's: "There's lots of good fish in the sea" W.S. Gilbert 1990's: Many fish stocks depleted due to overfishing, habitat loss, and pollution. 2000: Marine reserves, ecosystem restoration, and pollution reduction MAY help restore populations. 2022: Soylent Green is People! Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.
