10 years… of barnacles.
yeah. I’d hate my life too.
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De_Narm@lemmy.world 7 months agoI don’t know about this quote specificly, but Darwin spent almost 10 years working on barnacles to establish himself and came to hate them. It was supposed to be a quick detour before releasing ‘On the Origin of Species’. During that time he made a lot of similar statements.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Chestnut@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The history of Darwin’s Barnacles is fascinating youtu.be/plYuvU2VZkE?si=Xq6rwC8FdhXFBDYD
At the time barnacles represented a major taxonomic mystery. They have a bizarre lifecycle that baffled scientists and figuring out what they were related to was baffling
magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 7 months ago
Reminds me of this Onion video: https://youtu.be/qXD9HnrNrvk?si=x3vd96q2BzMRFAnA
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Those things have a tendency to stick around hey