Why Pregnant Women Don’t Tip Over
OK, this totally cracked me up:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/12/071212-pregnancy-tips.html
Karen Rosenberg, an anthropologist at the University of Delaware, said that the feature would have been naturally selected in humans at about the same time that bipedalism evolved, nearly five million years ago.
I am just dying, picturing all these cavewomen getting to a certain stage of pregnant, and just falling over and rolling like weebles. And then suddenly, some of them had stretchier spines and were able to get up and run away from the predators, while the others hung out like bait…
When I read about it, I just died laughing. And then you added weebles and I am cracking up all over again.
OK, I think its totally cool that yet again, we are the most evolutionarily advanced of our specieis but popular press interpretation of evolutionary biology are usually worth a snort or two. But I didn’t see any weebles