Darwin selfie

27 thoughts on “Darwin selfie”

1. Nice.

2. Replica Wax/Latex figures tend to freak me out…is that common?

   1. This particular one does look a bit creepy.

   2. That’s why there’re all those horror movies set in Madame Tussauds wax museums.

   3. I suspect it has something to do with the “uncanny valley.”

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley

3. Heh. I’ve got a picture of me next to that Darwin figure. In my photo he looks much less dorky than I do. 😉

4. Latex Darwin bounces back.

   Glen Davidson

5. Darwin looks good… I’d be tempted to put my arm around him like my best buddy 🙂

6. Are you certain it’s not David Letterman?

   1. Good one! DL’s beard is not working for him.

7. Latex Darwin looks like Santa.

   1. Old white men, long white hair, long white beard, they all look the same, like two earthworms.

      1. How Darwinianly appropriate. 😉

   2. I had the same thought.

      1. The stupid-smiling face of the Santa-Darwin lacks all the depth, sincerity and wisdom of life that one can watch on the face of the real Darwin.

8. Looks like Ken Ham to me.

9. That’s Buster Merryfield ,if you don’t know who he is ,look him up.

   1. Uncle Albert: During the war…

      Del Boy: If you say during the war one more time, I’ll pour this cup of tea over your head.

      Uncle Albert: During the 1939-1945 conflict with Germany…

   2. I did and it is! 😀

      @ Speaker–lol!

10. In the unlikely case that someone someday makes a statue of me, I hope they choose to depict me in my prime rather than as an enfeebled old man.

    1. Then it’s incumbent upon you to achieve greatness in the full bloom of youth. Better yet (for the juvenescence of your latex statue, though not for you personally), follow the advice of the character in Knock On Any Door and “live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse.” 🙂

11. you are all wrong it’s James Randi

    1. Amazing!

12. Why do they (web sites, books, etc.) nearly always represent represent Darwin as a very old man? The Origin of Species was written by a man in his 40s. The old man was the one who diluted his theory with ideas about the inheritance of acquired characters.

    1. Think about the development of photography. There are no photos of him as a young man.

    2. To me, younger Darwin hasn’t a very characteristic appearance. There are such people. Do you remember the young Sean Connory?

13. Makes Jerry look short – Darwin was about 5′ 11″ I think?

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