It seems that I’m down with the memes again, for as I was searching for some Thoughts in a Haystack I managed to once again become infected. Indeed, John has asked me to put my money where my mouth is when it comes to throwing around words like “pseudoextinction” in reference to my blog, and hence here’s a fitting meme about the “evolution” of Laelaps;

In order to understand from whence Laelaps sprang, we need to travel backwards through the mists of time to the tumultuous year 2006. On October 18th, 2006 I wrote my first “real” science-oriented blog post about the lack of understanding about evolution in the U.S. Although I don’t know how significant