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kinetic
13-12-2009, 07:16 PM
Adelaide has gone a bit Panda crazy lately as we have two visitors
staying at our zoo and the town is buzzing a bit over it.

This made me revisit one of my many favourite blogsites, The Panda's
Thumb (http://pandasthumb.org/), which is a very interesting scientific integrity blog devoted to
evolution and related topics.

It also made me revisit this site (http://www.athro.com/evo/pthumb.html) which gives a fascinating explanation to
the site's namesake: The Panda's opposable 'thumb'.
This story is an interesting quirk about the workings of evolution.

Steve

AstralTraveller
14-12-2009, 10:03 AM
'The Panda's Thumb' is also the title of the first Stephen J. Gould book I read. Years later Gould said that he wished the earth would open and swallow every copy of it but, hey, it impressed me. :thumbsup: