Don’t fuck with Darwin! That’s the golden rule among Spurs fans, evolutionary dabblers, life insurance salesmen and Jurassic Parkers. If you try and re-wire evolution, you are basically messing with God. So recent tales that they’re going to ‘remake’ a Wooly Mammoth, should send a shudder down any vertebrate’s spine. Mainly cos no-one else has one, you get that, don’t you.

Jurassic Park came out in 1993. The original one. The one I saw and loved. The other 18 I ignored. But that was ‘science fiction’, just 29 years ago. Taking a cell from a T.Rex and cloning it. But today that’s easy. Commonplace. Amazon probably do it. Next day on Prime. There’s nothing fictional about it. But why would you? A fucking Mammoth? Who needs one. Who’s that hungry?

On one of the Galápagos Islands, some ship, possibly Darwin’s, who knows, inadvertently unloaded a rat from its hold onto an island. Probably 2 in fact, cos it needed a ‘mate’. And because of the nature of those islands, plentiful food for all and no predators, the rats ‘took over’ within about a week. Ok, a year. So someone introduced a cat. Ok, two cats. I don’t know their names. Within a few years the rat problem was over. But the island was overrun with fucking cats. Arguably a worse problem because of all the hair-balls all over the place.

Of course there’s loads of instances of ‘man’ messing about with evolution, like industrial meat production, dairy farming. And on the other side of the evolutionary coin, there’s hundreds of instances of species, particularly tasty, cookable, served with potatoes and greens in a shallot sauce, type animals, literally eaten to extinction. But man’s a species too. So if we’re particularly piggish at times, isn’t just ‘natural’ evolution due to advantageous or disadvantageous food supply?

Yet ‘bringing animals back’ just doesn’t seem to offer much to the animal being brung back, does it? Just to show how clever we are? To show our total mastery over nature?

To such an extent that the planet is fucked up beyond all belief and won’t be able to support organic life by the time the Mammoth has children. If its a gel Mammoth, obvs.
And can find a boy one.

Happy Sunday

A xxxx