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Tree of life tattoo for evolution fans

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UPDATE: tattoos are all gone. Sorry.

For giggles, I modified Charles Darwin’s tree of life sketch and sent it to a company that manufactures temporary tattoos. If you happen to be model quality and would like to help promote science, drop me a line and I can send you one. I think it’s good to have images like these show up during searches for “evolution” and “survival of the fittest” so that the public finds it easier to accept science.

I also dropped the image onto Redbubble if you need a sticker or laptop case (for example).

Girl with pink Victoria's Secret panties and a Charles Darwin tree of life tattoo on stomach

Here’s Darwin’s sketch, if you’re curious:

Charles Darwin's tree of life sketch

Darwin and the “strongest of the species” quotation

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This is old news, but hundreds of yearly posts on Twitter suggest not everyone on the planet got the memo, so I want to make another post about this quote:

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”

The sentences are actually from Leon Megginson (details), a professor of marketing at Louisiana State University who died in 2010. But people love to attribute it to Darwin. E.g., as shown in the photograph below from the California Academy of Sciences.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives

If you give motivational seminars and need the quotation on a slide, here you go.