Friday, January 25, 2008

Good Friday Laugh

Sacado de esta reseña de un libro de divulgación publicado en 2001:

"Finally, although the science is generally accurate, Palumbi's discussion is occasionally confusing or incorrect. For example, he repeats as truth the common belief that artificial selection has made domestic turkeys so dim-witted that during storms they look up at the rain, forget to look down, and drown. This is, in fact, an agro-urban myth that has been branded an "unfounded turkey rumor" by Turkey Call, the official organ of the National Wild Turkey Federation. (Turkeys have, however, suffered greatly from domestication. Responding to human fondness for breast meat, farmers have bred birds too buxom to bonk, and new turkeys must be produced by artificial insemination.)"

(Jerry Coyne, The case of the missing carpaccio, Nature book review 2001)

Si yo pudiera escribir (y pensar!) como él...

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