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Re:Charles Darwin Ate One of Everything He Discovered by galuvian on Monday August 28, 2023 @01:29PM (#37297594)
This lines up with how it took 300 years for the giant tortoise to receive a scientific name. The process to get this required delivering a specimen back to England, and they were just too delicious.
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Re:Charles Darwin Ate One of Everything He Discovered by _whiteCaps_ on Monday August 28, 2023 @02:22PM (#37298407)
QI had some great discussions on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPggB4MfPnk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsoWLFbnFIk

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Re:Charles Darwin Ate One of Everything He Discovered by Symbiote on Monday August 28, 2023 @04:26PM (#37299978)
Is it true? There are museum record of skeletons from the early 19th century, which is around the right time, and there are Latin names from around then too.
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