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Closer reading of Darwin's 'Origin of Species' reveals repeated references to Unicorns

Mark Deane

Although Charles Darwin’s magnum opus ‘The Origin Of the Species’ is hailed as one of the most seminal and influential books ever written, scholars of Darwin’s work now claim that scientists and biologists have up until now overlooked the strange and repeated references throughout the book to the species of Unicorn- a mythical Biblical creature never claimed by anyone to have actually existed.

For example in Chapter 3, under the subsection ‘The Descent of Cloven Animals in the Euro-Asiatic Hemisphere’, Darwin claims that that the resemblance in “their frame and cranial dimensions indicates beyond doubt that the modern horse is descended from the unicorn”, adding several pages later that “changes in the species diet from grubs and insects to grass grazing meant that the unicorn shed its distinctive singular horn as it no longer required this to dig anthropods from the ground”.

Several Chapters later the Unicorn appears briefly again this time on the African sub continent when he argues that “among the many food sources of the sub family Hyaenidae [a type of hyena] were zebra, gazelle and of course Unicorn- the latter of which flourished on the mid African plains in what we shall call the late Minocne era”.

The irregularities with traditional evolutionary and zoological assumptions do not stop there. Darwin also makes reference to the “three month mating cycle of the Edenic reticulated serpent”, itself a biblical species historically believed to have been expelled from the garden of Eden which Darwin locates “somewhere in the region around modern day Baghdad”.

Dr. Herman Von Brecht a professor in Natural Biology believes up until now researchers have been silent about Darwins repeated tendency to swing wildly between empirical scientific observation and the assumptions of mythical and traditional folklore.

“In the space of single sentences”, he told us “Darwin is able to mention both the Opodiphthera Eucalypi and The Cracken, the lower mountain silverback gorilla and Grendel, and perhaps most bizarrely of all the “similarities in breeding habits between the Sperm Whale and Godzilla”.

This revisionist reading of Darwin’s work is perhaps the most unsettling discovery within a scientific tome since scientists came across a previously unread passage from Einsteins Theory Of General Relativity where he argues that “this curvature we observe in space time is uniform throughout the universe with the possible exception of the Delta Quadrant”.


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Irishman makes "billion-euro home" of shredded notes

(Reuters) - An unemployed Irish artist has built a home from the shredded remains of 1.4 billion euros ($1.82 billion), a monument to the "madness" he says has been wrought on Ireland by the single currency, from a spectacular construction boom to a wrenching bust.

Frank Buckley built the apartment in the lobby of a Dublin office building that has lain vacant since its completion four years ago at the peak of an ill-fated construction boom, using bricks of shredded euro notes he borrowed from Ireland's national mint.

"It's a reflection of the whole madness that gripped us," Buckley said of what he calls his "billion-euro home."

"People were pouring billions into buildings now worth nothing," he said. "I wanted to create something from nothing."

A wave of cheap credit flowed into Ireland in the early 2000s after Ireland joined the currency zone fuelling a huge property bubble that transformed the country.

The bubble's collapse since 2007 plunged Ireland into the deepest recession in the industrialized world, forcing the former "Celtic Tiger" to accept a humiliating bailout from the EU and the IMF.

Buckley was given a 100 percent mortgage at the peak of the boom to buy a 365,000 euro home on the far reaches of Dublin's commuter belt, despite the fact he had no steady income.

He has separated from his wife who lives in the home, which has since lost at least one-third of its value.

Living in his "billion euro home" since the start of December, Buckley is working on adding a kitchen to the living room and hall.

The walls and floor are covered in euro shreddings and the house is so warm Buckley sleeps without a blanket.

Pictures made from notes and coins decorate the walls, including one of a house, made from Irish 5 pence pieces.

"There are houses in Ireland worth less than that," Buckley quips.

Buckley said he wants Europe's politicians to solve the eurozone debt crisis without destroying its currency. But if the currency ultimately fails, he will happily use the euro zone's defunct notes as fodder for future projects.

"Whatever you say about the euro, it's a great insulator."