Evolution Memes

Evolution: not just a theory but the theory that explains why your back hurts (we stood up too quickly in evolutionary time) and why you can't stop eating sugar (it used to be really hard to find). These memes celebrate the process that took single-celled organisms and, through a series of increasingly complex mistakes, created creatures that argue about sports and create abstract art. If you've ever contemplated the evolutionary purpose of embarrassment, realized your body is full of outdated features like wisdom teeth and appendixes, or felt the special irony of using your evolved brain to actively avoid exercise, you'll find your fellow products of natural selection here. From the strange detours of convergent evolution to the elegant simplicity of "survival of the just-good-enough," ScienceHumor.io's evolution collection captures the beautiful absurdity of a process that had no goal but somehow created beings with goals.