Origin of Species Drinking Gama
From a mailing list I'm on:
"A former student alerted me to the following (source is the Feb. 12, 2009
[Darwin Day] post on http://capacioushandbag.blogspot.com/):
I just invented the Origin of Species drinking game. Each player has to read
out a whole sentence from the book without stopping for breath. If they
can't do it, they take a swig and try the next sentence instead. If they
can, the book passes to the next player. It'll go like this:
Player 1: "Finally, then, I conclude that the greater variability of
specific characters, or those which distinguish species from species, than
of generic characters, or those which are possessed by all the species; that
the frequent extreme variability of any part which is developed in a species
in an extraordinary manner in comparison with the same part in its
congeners; and the slight degree of variability in a part, however
extraordinarily it may be developed, if it be common to a whole group of
species; that the great variability of secondary sexual characters and their
great difference in closely allied species; that secondary sexual and
ordinary specific differences are generally displayed in the same parts of
the organisation, are all..."
(Drink)
"All being mainly due to the species of the same group being the descendants
of a common progenitor, from whom they have inherited much in common, to
parts which have recently and largely varied being more likely still to go
on varying than parts which have long been inherited and have not varied, to
natural selection having more or less completely, according to the lapse of
time, overmastered the tendency to reversion and to further variability, to
sexual selection being less rigid than ordinary selection, and to variations
in the same parts having been accumulated by natural and sexual selection,
and thus having been adapted for secondary sexual, and.."
(Drink)
Let me know if you try it and survive."
"A former student alerted me to the following (source is the Feb. 12, 2009
[Darwin Day] post on http://capacioushandbag.blogspot.com/):
I just invented the Origin of Species drinking game. Each player has to read
out a whole sentence from the book without stopping for breath. If they
can't do it, they take a swig and try the next sentence instead. If they
can, the book passes to the next player. It'll go like this:
Player 1: "Finally, then, I conclude that the greater variability of
specific characters, or those which distinguish species from species, than
of generic characters, or those which are possessed by all the species; that
the frequent extreme variability of any part which is developed in a species
in an extraordinary manner in comparison with the same part in its
congeners; and the slight degree of variability in a part, however
extraordinarily it may be developed, if it be common to a whole group of
species; that the great variability of secondary sexual characters and their
great difference in closely allied species; that secondary sexual and
ordinary specific differences are generally displayed in the same parts of
the organisation, are all..."
(Drink)
"All being mainly due to the species of the same group being the descendants
of a common progenitor, from whom they have inherited much in common, to
parts which have recently and largely varied being more likely still to go
on varying than parts which have long been inherited and have not varied, to
natural selection having more or less completely, according to the lapse of
time, overmastered the tendency to reversion and to further variability, to
sexual selection being less rigid than ordinary selection, and to variations
in the same parts having been accumulated by natural and sexual selection,
and thus having been adapted for secondary sexual, and.."
(Drink)
Let me know if you try it and survive."