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I 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.

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Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Those things have a tendency to stick around hey

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FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
10 years… of barnacles.

yeah. I’d hate my life too.

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- Chestnut@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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
  
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BakerBagel@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The TLDR is that he couldn’t figure iut how to classify the fuckers because he didn’t have modern biology tools like genetic analysis, protein identification, or any molecular biology.

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magic_lobster_party@kbin.run ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Reminds me of this Onion video: https://youtu.be/qXD9HnrNrvk?si=x3vd96q2BzMRFAnA

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