Ocean Boys, I Accept Your Great Darwin Beard Challenge…

For awhile anyway.

As some of you may know, Andrew, the Southern Fried Scientist, and Kevin Zelnio of The Other 95% and Deep Sea News have begun a Darwinian celebratory challenge of manly proportions. Between February 12th (Darwin’s 200th birthday) and October 1st (The 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species, according to the first edition cover) they will be evolving from relatively smooth-skinned baby-faced boys to hirsute woolly men in The Great Darwin Beard Challenge.

Now, as a normally bearded man, I would love to say that I’m gonna make it through this thing. However, my local environment will most likely soon be invaded by the new selective pressures of interviews and job talks (not to mention the already constant sexual selection pressures from my wife to maintain no upper lip hair). As such, I will most likely have to represent an extinction event in this Darwinian challenge.  But I will continue for as long as possible.

So with that I give you Day 1:

Day 1 - Freshly shorn and smooth (random: the cat, "Dizzy," has epilepsy - we named him before he became neurologically abnormal)

Written by Irradiatus in
Categories: Entertainment, Great Darwin Beard Challenge
Tags: Darwin's Birthday, Evolution, Great Darwin Beard Challenge, Kevin Zelnio, Southern Fried Scientist

13 Comments »

• Kevin Z says:

  February 14, 2009 at 11:09 pm

  Here here my good man! I see Dizzy declined to participate.

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• Southern Fried Scientist says:

  February 14, 2009 at 11:13 pm

  Viva la evolucion! Who among us will grow they’re beard in a slow and stately march or progress, and who’s stubble shall progress in what could only be described as punctuated equilibrium?

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• Christie says:

  February 15, 2009 at 8:39 am

  Oh geez… you boys…

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• Allie says:

  February 15, 2009 at 11:20 am

  If I were a man, I would totally join you guys. But alas, I cannot participate in The Great Darwin Beard Challenge!

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  • Irradiatus says:

    February 15, 2009 at 2:44 pm

    You could always start “The Great Darwin Leg and Armpit Hair Challenge”…

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    • Allie says:

      February 15, 2009 at 4:05 pm

      Oh, I think I’ll pass on that one. I WOULD like to find a guy one of these days, and I’m pretty sure that would be a huge turn off. LOL.

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• Jay says:

  February 15, 2009 at 2:31 pm

  Ha! Good luck man.

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• WhySharksMatter says:

  February 15, 2009 at 8:03 pm

  Wow… though I always thought I was pretty good at peer pressure… this may be the most I’ve ever accomplished by merely making chicken squawk noises (actually, I didn’t even have to make them, I just typed them). Welcome.

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  • Southern Fried Scientist says:

    February 16, 2009 at 7:11 am

    be honest Dave, you squawked while typing.

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    • Whysharksmatter says:

      February 16, 2009 at 12:27 pm

      You got me.

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  February 16, 2009 at 7:57 am

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• Biochemicalsoul » Great Darwin Beard Challenge - Day 7 says:

  February 19, 2009 at 1:08 am

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