Comments on: Election Season Starts Friday! https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/01/14/election-season-starts-friday/ Wed, 15 Jan 2020 03:20:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Tyvor Winn https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/01/14/election-season-starts-friday/#comment-837039 Wed, 15 Jan 2020 03:20:46 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=32582#comment-837039 When I was teaching the hominin fossil record etc. in Historical Geology, I used to tell my students that our species name would have been different if we had been named by our closest primate relatives. We would probably have been given a name translatable as “bubble-headed” because of our peculiar neotenic skull shape as adults.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/01/14/election-season-starts-friday/#comment-837023 Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:41:14 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=32582#comment-837023 In reply to Tyvor Winn.

“Sapient”???? LOL! When he named our species, Linnaeus was being ironic!

]]> By: Tyvor Winn https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/01/14/election-season-starts-friday/#comment-837015 Tue, 14 Jan 2020 23:30:56 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=32582#comment-837015 It’s hard to believe that this is the best process that could be developed over three centuries by sapient humans. Then, of course, after an election there’s the Electoral College to make sure that a majority only sometimes rules.

No wonder so many people stay home on election day.

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