tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post8718559412750418825..comments2024-03-29T11:20:48.180+00:00Comments on Rosa Rubicondior: Darwin's Wonderful WormsRosa Rubicondiorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06063268216781988588noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-80491584279703243772014-04-27T01:56:35.052+01:002014-04-27T01:56:35.052+01:00Some people have expressed disappointment that Dar...Some people have expressed disappointment that Darwin would devote his declining years to what, in retrospect, seems a rather trivial study ....<br /> <br />But Darwin's path to greatness was begun also with a rather trivial study: of barnacles. It was only when he was ultimately reckoned as a world authority on barnacles that he used his reputation as a meticulous researcher to begin to promulgate his theory of evolution by natural selection.<br />grasshopperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16697495539384219936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-79348654039806483902014-04-22T20:15:30.298+01:002014-04-22T20:15:30.298+01:00Absolutely. Life is literally creating the earth. ...Absolutely. Life is literally creating the earth. Even the chalk in the chalk downs was extracted from seawater by trillions of microorganism called coccolithophores and deposited in vast drifts if tiny shells in marine sediment.Rosa Rubicondiorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06063268216781988588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-50879196768820878212014-04-22T11:26:27.553+01:002014-04-22T11:26:27.553+01:00So it sounds like future archaeologists will have ...So it sounds like future archaeologists will have to excavate American cities from a "tell" of compacted cigarette butts and plastic bags. No worm ever born could survive trying to process that stuff.<br /><br />Seriously, this is fascinating, and not at all an unworthy matter for Darwin to spend his time on. It also helps explain why the surfaces of other planets look so stark and barren compared with Earth's (even Earth's deserts), and in many cases seem to have been completely unchanged for billions of years. Other planets don't have worms. Nothing churns up the soil on the Moon or Mars except the occasional meteorite.Infidel753https://www.blogger.com/profile/10965786814334886696noreply@blogger.com