Bad Science Fair Project Sighting
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2016 8:05 am
Had a boys basketball game in Swanville the other night. The 6th Graders (or whatever grade) had their science project posters in the commons. it appeared to based on how evolution worked for various animals.
I really only looked at one or 2 close, but the zebra one made me cringe. The budding Darwin's thesis was that Zebras basically evolved their stripes in the last 100 years?????!!!!!
He showed a picture of a modern Zebra and also a picture of what Zebras ostensibly looked like 100 years ago. My first thought when I saw the 100 years ago picture was that it was probably a subspecies or a mutation. But no, not even that close-it was this picture of a F===/// Quagga that the teacher could have found with one second of Googling.
http://www.crystalinks.com/quagga.jpg
Per Wikipedia>>>>>>>>
Quagga is an extinct subspecies of plains zebra that lived in South Africa until the 19th century. It was long thought to be a distinct species, but genetic studies have shown it to be the southernmost subspecies of plains zebra. It is considered particularly close to Burchell's zebra. Its name is derived from its call, which sounds like "kwa-ha-ha".<<<
I really only looked at one or 2 close, but the zebra one made me cringe. The budding Darwin's thesis was that Zebras basically evolved their stripes in the last 100 years?????!!!!!
He showed a picture of a modern Zebra and also a picture of what Zebras ostensibly looked like 100 years ago. My first thought when I saw the 100 years ago picture was that it was probably a subspecies or a mutation. But no, not even that close-it was this picture of a F===/// Quagga that the teacher could have found with one second of Googling.
http://www.crystalinks.com/quagga.jpg
Per Wikipedia>>>>>>>>
Quagga is an extinct subspecies of plains zebra that lived in South Africa until the 19th century. It was long thought to be a distinct species, but genetic studies have shown it to be the southernmost subspecies of plains zebra. It is considered particularly close to Burchell's zebra. Its name is derived from its call, which sounds like "kwa-ha-ha".<<<