#darwin brown

[nastasya--filippovna]

Quiz time: What do these three have in common?

Other than David Tennant! Anyone can see that, duh!

I'll take my answer in the comments/reblogs.

Re-blog for larger sample size (aka pass the quiz sheets to the kids behind you)

@turtleneck-crowley @ivankaramazov07 @mizgnomer @ofpineapplesanddawns did you get it ;)

#david tennant #good omens #ducktales #duck patrol #crowley #darwin brown #scrooge mcduck #my memes #quiz time #it's easy guys #come on #ducks have ears #they're what water slides of #feed them frozen peas not bread #they are super rich and adventurous #and f*cking stingy #and they need to be looked after

[marchentraume]

Checking out Duck Patrol

Baby David 😍😍😍

#duck patrol #david tennant #I wanna rub my fingers through his hair as well #darwin brown

[local-posts]

Yello!!!

I know I haven't posted much on here,but I'm not going to be using Twitter for a while so I shall reside here..

Also in my off time I've gained a hyperfixationnnn

(League of gentlemen)

So enjoy the (hopefully) more frequent posting!!!!

#leauge of Gentlemen #judee levinson #bernice woodall #stella hull #ollie plimsolls #reece shearsmith #darwin brown #michael sheen #david tennant #blur band #inside number 9 #psychoville

[daffodiria]

Another tawog chart meme XD

#chart meme #the amazing world of gumball #tawog #gumball #tawog tobias #tawog banana joe #tawog darwin #tawog richard #tawog gumball #tawog mr brown #tawog anais #tawog mr small #tawog rob #tawog alan #tawog carrie #tawog ocho #tawog julius #tawog jamie #tawog larry #tobias wilson #gumball watterson #darwin watterson

[percervall]

Who are some soccer players with BIG eyes? I’m a sucker for big beautiful eyes. Bonus points if they have long eyelashes 😍

Oh, I love this question! And there's quite a few I feel like

A read more, because of course I gotta back up my opinion with evidence 🤭

The first one to come to mind is Joe Gomez

How can anyone say no that face?

Same goes for Thiago Alcantara

and Darwin Núñez

Would also say that Trent fits this category

and don't forget his bestie Robbo

or his new bestie Domi

I hate this as much as you think I do, but can't deny it: he fits the category

gotta have my man Jan

#ask #anonymous #joe gomez #thiago alcantara #darwin núñez #trent alexander arnold #andy robertson #dominik szoboszlai #ruben dias #jan oblak #about halfway through I realised they all have brown eyes 🙈 oopsies? #mar's emporium of lists

[friendly-neighborhood-furry]

ATTENTION FELLOW GUMBALL FANS

#such relief #the amazing world of gumball #tawog #the amazing world of gumball: the movie! #gonna tag as many characters as i can think of so as many people as possible know #gumball watterson #rob tawog #dr wrecker tawog #nicole watterson #richard watterson #anais watterson #darwin watterson #penny fitzgerald #carrie krueger #alan keane #tobias wilson #nigel brown #lucy simian #tina rex #molly collins #bobert #bobert tawog #ocho tootmorsel #harry tootmorsel #still cracks me up that that's his actual name #masami yoshida #yuki yoshida #mr yoshida #really scraping the bottom of the barrel here #joanna watterson

[meeenrui]

#the amazing world of gumball #tawog rocky #tawog brown #tawog gumball #tawog darwin #fanart

[kemetic-dreams]

John Edmonstone: the man who taught Darwin taxidermy

By James McNish

John Edmonstone was a former enslaved man who taught the young Charles Darwin the skill of taxidermy. This skill helped Darwin preserve the birds that fermented his ideas about evolution.

Many African people's contributions to science are hidden from history and we have to reconstruct their stories from the margins of more famous naturalists' lives.

One such intriguing figure is John Edmonstone. A former enslaved person from Guyana, John was living in Edinburgh when he met a young Charles Darwin and taught him the skill of taxidermy. This was fundamental to Darwin's ability to preserve the specimens he collected on his five-year voyage on the Beagle.

Though we only have scant details on Edmonstone's life, what we know reveals that he was a talented and respected taxidermist and naturalist.

Edmonstone in Guyana

John Edmonstone was enslaved on a timber plantation in Demerara (now part of Guyana), South America, owned by Scotsman Charles Edmonstone (hence John's surname - his birth name remains unknown).

The eccentric naturalist Charles Waterton (whose family also enslaved people) visited Charles Edmonstone's plantation a number of times on his travels through Guyana.

Waterton had developed new methods to preserve bird skins, which he taught to John, who accompanied him on some collecting expeditions. Despite Waterton believing that John 'had poor abilities, and it required much time and patience to drive anything into him', Darwin's later recollections of John's skill seems to contradict this assessment.

Edmonstone in Scotland

Plantation owner Charles Edmonstone returned to Scotland in 1817 and John came with him. Although we don't know if John was already free when he arrived, he would have become a free man on entering Scotland. Owning slaves was banned in Scotland in 1778 following the case of James Knight.

At first, John lived in Glasgow. By 1824 he was in Edinburgh, making a living for himself working for the University of Edinburgh's zoological museum and living at 37 Lothian Street.

Edmonstone and Darwin

Darwin went to Edinburgh in 1825 when he was 16 to study medicine, but he didn't really enjoy the subject and only stayed for two years. While there, he did grow his interest in natural history, attending talks and undertaking his own investigations.

Darwin's lodgings were at 11 Lothian Street, near Edmonstone's. Darwin hired Edmonstone to give him private lessons. Though in a letter to his sister it seems price was the main initial motivator: 'I am going to learn to stuff birds, from a blackamoor I believe an old servant of Dr Duncan: it has the recommendation of cheapness, if it has nothing else', Darwin later mentioned in his autobiography:

'A negro lived in Edinburgh, who had travelled with Waterton, and gained his livelihood by stuffing birds, which he did excellently: he gave me lessons for payment, and I used often to sit with him, for he was a very pleasant and intelligent man.'

Edmonstone charged Darwin one guinea for an hour every day for two months. As well as the time spent on instruction, the two must have conversed on the natural history Edmonstone knew first-hand from South America.

Darwin's preserved bird specimens

Thanks to Edmonstone's teachings, Darwin's preservation skills were put to great use during his voyage on the Beagle (1831-1836). Of the many specimens Darwin collected, almost 500 were bird skins. The Museum holds nearly 200 of these.

Specimens of Galapagos mockingbirds, collected by Charles Darwin

We can't be sure that Darwin himself prepared all the bird skins, since specimen preparation was something that was carried out collectively on the Beagle. However, the skills that Darwin learnt from Edmonstone would have been passed down to his assistants.

A life in the margins

There are scant details of Edmonstone's later life. We know he was still living in Edinburgh in 1833 and had moved to 6 South St David Street.

We can only speculate as to the effect his story had on the young Darwin. His accounts of South America must certainly have been inspiring to Darwin. Did Edmonstone help form Darwin's abolitionist viewpoint? We know from his journals from the Beagle that Darwin noticed cruel acts during the voyage which he found repugnant.

In 2009, a plaque was unveiled in his memory on Lothian Street, although it has since disappeared. But awareness of Edmonstone has grown in recent years and we can hope that his story, and that of other African people contributing to the study of natural history, continues to be told.

#john edmonstone #african #afrakan #kemetic dreams #brownskin #afrakans #africans #brown skin #african culture #guyana #darwin #charles darwin #science #taxidermy #scotland #south america

[honeysound]

The distance between us mirrors the distance between two stars.

Venus - Sleeping At Last // Dark Star - Yuriy Musatov // Sweetdark - Savannah Brown // Redshift - Darwin Deez & Nocturne in Black and Gold - James Abbott McNeill Whistler

#web weaving #my collection #star #stars #space #sleeping at last #savannah brown #darwin deez #james whistler #honeysound

[supersunky64]

Day 19 Week 3: Musicians | Sunny Bridges

#sunny bridges #class of 3000 #russel hobbs #gorillaz #darwin watterson #tawog #valerie brown #josie and the pussycats #garnet #steven universe #fanart #drawing #ms paint #black history month #simply sunky

[somerandomwizard]

Darwin: What would Mrs. Mom think?

Gumball: Ok, that's an interesting thought, but hear me out: What if.... We ran an experiment where we spent the rest of our lives finding out what happened if we never told her?

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Ms. Markham: Man, they look like a real handful. How do you deal with them?

Principal Brown, watching Mr. Small screaming, Miss Simian trying to set a sleeping Mr. Moonchild Corneille on fire, and Coach choking on air: I don't know.

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Principal Brown: Valentines Day? I'm ready. *sprays an entire can of AXE body spray on himself*

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(Mary and Daniel are Nicole's partents)

Mary Senicourt: Nicole likes to win. When she was eight, a Little Club Scout friend of hers bragged they could sell the most cookies.

Daniel Seincourt: Dammed if Nicole didn't walk the neighborhood till she got blisters on her feet, and won ten boxes.

Mary Seincourt: Best part is, Nicole wasn't even a Club Scout.

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Richard: Yum, thanks!

Kidnapper: *puts more tape over his mouth* I said stop eating it.

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Larry, opening a Capri Sun: Guess I'll drink my sorrows away.

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Anton: I'm allergic to death.

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Evil Turtle: *dies*

Nicole: Timer starts now! When is it going to come back? I say two months!

Gumball: No! One month.

Anias: Nah, half a month.

Darwin, sobbing: WHAT ARE YOU DOING? EVIL TURTLE JUST DIED!

Richard, scratching chin in thought: One week.

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Penny: Can you recommend me a book that'll make me cry?

Carrie: General Mathematics 8th Grade Edition.

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Penny: I'm a nice person, but I'm about to start throwing rocks at people.

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Sarah: If you water water it grows.

Gumball: ...What?

Darwin: She's got a point.

#TAWOG #The Amazing World of Gumball #gumball watterson #darwin watterson #nicole watterson #richard watterson #Evil Turtle #Mary Senicourt #Daniel Senicourt #Ms. Markham #principal brown #miss simian #mr. small #Mr. Corneille #Moonchild Corneille #Coach #Larry #Anton #penny fitzgerald #carrie krueger #Sarah G. Leto #Sarah #incorrect quotes

[cuprikorn]

#botanic #gardens #darwin #plant #flower #nature #george #brown #flickr

[specialshinytrinkets]

🔥

Ms. Simian? ^^

Oof........ idk what exact opinions fandom has on her, so....... if it is popular, then I'm deeply sorry

Some of her reactions in some episodes are justified. I mean- imagine teaching Gumball freaking Watterson, who creates chaos from nothing. Not to say she was never malicious, but neither is Gumball a consistently good person

Flanderising her to be a despair source, and then backing away and making her... kinda harmless is. huh

#thanks for the ask! #answered ask #answered asks #ask #ms simian #when was the last time she chased Gumball and Darwin through school halls - it's not good. but you either make her a nightmare of a teacher #that every kid can understand to hate. or let her grow senile you can't have both #how do i explain — simian is openly malicious; agressive; can and will manipulate her students' feeling to get what she wants #(that ep where she pretended to be wattersons' friend to get a reward) #but making students miserable for no reason? no - whenever she had trouble with gumball you could understand the baseline #i'm referring to 'the fun' and a bit to 'the lie'. and then there's her being the vulnerable and helpless like in 'the singing' #can't she shout at students to make them stfu? that's most certainly in her power. or being so hurt by pr brown that she wanted to #leave elmore. speaking of which he became more dangerous and well-planning than her over years and i wonder now it's mutual #influence they had over each other #ramble in the tags

[coppercookie]

My favourite ratities

#ratite #ratities #flightless bird #american rhea #common ostrich #darwin's rhea #emu #great spotted kiwi #northern cassowary #puna rhea #somali ostirich #southern brown kiwi #southern cassowary #rhea #ostrich #kiwi #cassowary #favourites #favourite animals

[halidaia]

Evolution is taught all wrong in schools

I am so sick and tired of idiot science teachers who explain evolution badly. It’s 100% their fault that there are idiots who believe in creationism. “Evolved” and “adapted” have NO right whatsoever being transitive verbs

You absolutely cannot say that deer evolved eyes on the sides of their heads. That has the implication that the deer made an active choice to have eyes on the side of their heads, as if they got selection screen every few years asking how they’d like to change in this lifetime, or what features you’d like to add/remove, or what they want their kids to be like. That is not how it works at all. Evolution is not a conscious choice, and if it was, I think we’d’ve noticed by now

So how does it work? In actuality, it’s 100% random. During reproduction, the DNA of your parents is copied into you. But you have so, so much DNA in your body. Enough to reach from the Sun to Pluto and back, or about a meter or DNA for every cell inside your body. That’s a lot. Anyone can make a proofreading error, especially with that much data to sift through. This is how mistakes happen in DNA: It’s all during the division and reproduction of cells, which is the only time the DNA is being copied. And if a mistake happens in DNA, it’ll affect something about you. Maybe you’ll have blue eyes even though both of your parents had brown eyes. If the mistake occurs in the gene that affects eye color, that’s 100% possible. But it’s harmless and a tiny change. Plenty of changes are much more significant

Imagine a female brown bear, wandering around in the North Pole. Imagine a brown bear in-utero, as just a fertilized egg. Imagine there’s a mutation [copying error] on the gene that affects fur color. The mutation is such that the bear’s fur is white instead of brown. This is not a conscious choice by the non-sentient bear embryo. This is not a conscious choice by the bear’s mother, father, or littermates. It is pure chance. Say it with me: It is pure chance. Pure RNG, if you will. But you know what? This white bear blends into the snow more easily than the brown bears, obviously, and thus is better at sneaking up on its prey. So it’s a more successful hunter than the brown bears. It survives and reproduces with an exponentially higher success rate than the brown bears, passing along this white fur gene mutation to its cubs, who are also more successful hunters than the brown bears

The population of brown bears in the North Pole dies out and gives away to the more successful hunter: The Polar Bear. This is how evolution happens: randomly, but fortunately. Evolution is, quite literally, a chaotic good in this scenario

In many other scenarios, evolution is a chaotic evil. Also by pure random chance, you could be born missing half your heart, like my cousin Gigi. That’s a genetic copying error that led to a harmful mutation. Still, it’s a creature being altered in some way by random chance, ergo, it’s evolution. But it doesn’t make her a more successful predator, so it isn’t one of those characteristics that’ll stick around for the benefit of the next generation

Evolution, copying errors in your genetics, is the one and only reason you’re any different from your parents. Maybe I can grow a beard but my dad can’t. That’s a random alteration of my DNA from his that makes me a more attractive mate, and thus, the gene for beards is passed on. Except it won’t be. My genetics will all be lost because I’m gay. That’s irrelevant. My point is, these tiny random things that set you apart from your parents and everyone/everything else you know are a gradual, less extreme example of evolution

I hope this cleared something up for you. Yes, life forms are still evolving. No, it’s involuntary, and no, it’s not always beneficial. Please share this with whomever you know, before these bastardized misconceptions about evolution further corrupt our society. Thank you

#evolution #dna #rna #polar bears #brown bears #natural selection #charles darwin #survival of the fittest #random #chaotic good #chaotic evil #population

[tenth-sentence]

Mr. Swainson has well remarked,¹ that with the exception of the Molothrus pecoris, to which must be added the M. niger, the cuckoos are the only birds which can be called truly parasitical; namely, such as 'fasten themselves, as it were, on another living animal, whose animal heat brings their young into life, whose food they live upon, and whose death would cause theirs during the period of infancy.'

1 Magazine of Zoology and Botany, vol. i. p. 217.

"Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, 1832-36" - Charles Darwin

#book quote #the voyage of the beagle #charles darwin #nonfiction #william john swainson #swainson #cowbird #brown headed cowbird #molothrus pecoris #molothrus ater #molothrus niger #molothrus bonariensis #shiny cowbird #birds #parasitic #parasite #cuckoo #dependent