quarta-feira, junho 02, 2004

Memorial Day

O Memorial Day já lá vai, mas é gente e gestos destes que faz uma boa parte dos US of A que lembro.

Nota: O link original para o post 'Memorial Day' levava a uma página de arquivo que não aparecia como deve de ser no monitor. Alterei-o para a página principal do blog onde, de qualquer forma, o post, datado de 31 de Maio, pode ser lido em condições.
# Lançado por PSA às 7:29:00 da tarde
"In North America the black bear was seen by [Samuel] Hearne swimming for hours with widely open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water. Even in so extreme a case as this, if the supply of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale."
Darwin, Charles; "The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection" (On the origin and transitions of organic beings with peculiar habits and structure)