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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