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“ Psst. I have no idea why, but the WTF, Evolution?! book is less than $3.50 new on Amazon right now. The eBook is also on sale for $1.99 all this month. Tell a friend!
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Psst. I have no idea why, but the WTF, Evolution?! book is less than $3.50 new on Amazon right now. The eBook is also on sale for $1.99 all this month. Tell a friend!

Up to $5 now. I think the price-setting robots are onto us. Quick, before capitalism catches up!

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Psst. I have no idea why, but the WTF, Evolution?! book is less than $3.50 new on Amazon right now. The eBook is also on sale for $1.99 all this month. Tell a friend!
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Psst. I have no idea why, but the WTF, Evolution?! book is less than $3.50 new on Amazon right now. The eBook is also on sale for $1.99 all this month. Tell a friend!

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Some people bake for the holidays. Evolution makes hundreds of perfectly round, pointy-eared, ridiculous-nosed bats. Bring some to your family gathering this year!
Source: David Dennis / Flickr / licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
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Some people bake for the holidays. Evolution makes hundreds of perfectly round, pointy-eared, ridiculous-nosed bats. Bring some to your family gathering this year! 


Source: David Dennis / Flickr / licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

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“Good lord, evolution, what is that?”
“It’s a flannel moth caterpillar I just finished. Funny little guy, huh?”
“It’s sort of… terrifying.”
“What? Nah. Look, it’s mostly hair. Pretty irritating, maybe, but there’s not much room for brains under...
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“Good lord, evolution, what is that?”

“It’s a flannel moth caterpillar I just finished. Funny little guy, huh?”

“It’s sort of… terrifying.”

“What? Nah. Look, it’s mostly hair. Pretty irritating, maybe, but there’s not much room for brains under there. It can’t actually do anything.”

“Okay, if you say so. But then where are you going to put it? Like, what is its ecological niche going to be?”

“Oh, I don’t know. Do I have to think of everything? I mean, I guess it could run for president of the United States.”


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“ Need a holiday gift for your nerdy best friend, precocious teenage offspring, or fundamentalist aunt?* Consider the WTF, Evolution?! book. Charles Darwin would have liked it, probably.
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Need a holiday gift for your nerdy best friend, precocious teenage offspring, or fundamentalist aunt?* Consider the WTF, Evolution?! book. Charles Darwin would have liked it, probably.

Here’s what some living people are saying:

“Mara Grunbaum’s book highlights the amazing, truly strange side of evolution. Nature’s a funny thing.” —The Verge

“In addition to being entertaining, the combined photos and commentary are extremely educational. They are also a constant reminder of what evolution is and how it really works.” —Huffington Post

"Although many of the species profiled here have downright disgusting quirks (such as baby toads that crawl through their mother’s skin), readers can’t help but be awed by them.” —Scientific American

Available at:
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*WTF, Evolution? cannot be held responsible for the reaction of your fundamentalist aunt.

Look, the book came out a while ago, which means no one will even be expecting it this year. Now’s your chance to surprise them!

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WTF, Evolution?! A Theory of Unintelligible Design | Little City Books

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New York/New Jersey! I’m doing a reading next week at Little City Books in Hoboken. You should come.

Tonight!

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“Happy Thanksgiving from evolution! Enjoy your roast ugly dinosaur.
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Happy Thanksgiving from evolution! Enjoy your roast ugly dinosaur.

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WTF, Evolution?! A Theory of Unintelligible Design | Little City Books

New York/New Jersey! I’m doing a reading next week at Little City Books in Hoboken. You should come.

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Chin up, sea toad. Evolution may have given you a grumpy face, a potato-sack body, and what looks like a permanent case of chin rash, but at least you got legs, right? How many fish get legs? Legs are probably good for something underwater, right? They probably are. I mean, they certainly don’t look useless dangling from your weird little abdomen like that while you swim. Not useless at all. You really are a lucky fish.


Video courtesy of NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program

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“Oh, that’s a cute one, evolution! What is that?”
“It’s a hyrax! It pees in holes.”
“Huh.”
“Guess what it’s most closely related to.”
“I don’t know, what?”
“No, guess.”
“I mean… rodents, right? It’s a rodent?”
“Nope. Teeth are different.”
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“Oh, that’s a cute one, evolution! What is that?”

“It’s a hyrax! It pees in holes.”

“Huh.”

“Guess what it’s most closely related to.”

“I don’t know, what?”

“No, guess.”

“I mean… rodents, right? It’s a rodent?”

“Nope. Teeth are different.”

“Oh. Um, is it some kind of tiny fat dog?“

“What? No.”

“Oh! Is it like that weird miniature deer you did?”

“Ha, no. That was a good one, though.”

“Okay, fine. I give up. What is the hyrax most closely related to?”

“Elephants and manatees.”

“Really?”

“Yep.”

“Nothing in between?”

“Not really, no.”

“I just… how? Why?”

“Dunno. I like messing with you, mostly.”


Image Source: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen / Wikimedia Commons / licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0

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