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Archive for December, 2009

each one, teach one

Turtles have been around for about 220 million years now. In this time they have changed very little and this got me wondering, why??

Prehistoric turtle

Have turtles somehow decided to to ignore evolution? Maybe they are just so happy with their little mobile homes that ‘what would be the point of changing’. Or maybe natural selection screwed up and set off a chain reaction of non-action.

Say the turtle was supposed have a natural enemy that hunted it in the water and on the ground so much that it evolved into a mole-turtle or a turtle-worm. Or say their enemy was supposed to be this evil ground worm with massive teeth, so the turtles would evolve into flying creatures. Whatever the case, I think turtles are missing out on realising their full potential. I think that we really need to do something about this. My suggestion is ‘each one, teach one’.

Turtle knowledge transfer process

How can we help?
The basic idea of each one teach one, is to find a turtle and try to teach it the things that you think could help them evolve. From there we hope that the turtle will teach another turtle and so on. Eventually we should get to a point of highly skilled turtle saturation throughout the world.