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.
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7:21 pm on February 18th, 2010
evolution does not work that way. You cannot teach evolution to something. What you are talking about is a meme (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme). Also evolution does not happen due to a cause such as a natural predator, it just naturally happens as genes mutates some of which mean a turtle is more likely to survive so it passes on the mutated gene or some of which mean it is less likely to survive so it dies before it has the chance to create offspring. Which is where the idea survival of the fittest comes from. My guess to why turtles have not evolved much is that they are almost perfect at what they do so all mutations die off faster and are less likely to breed so the turtle remains the same.
so my point summed up
turtles don’t need to evolve because they are already awesome.
9:23 am on February 19th, 2010
i am talking science here fella. the science of lulz, not facts.
3:51 am on September 5th, 2010
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Willy.