Darwin Year (party time).

Proof that natural selection is an imperfect science (Photo credit: Thomas Meggs)

If you’re into Charles Darwin, and who isn’t?, this is your year. In fact, 2009 is both the 200th anniversary of Chuck D’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species. You’re probably thinking I’m pretty smart for knowing this, but really I just read this New York Times blog post. Apparently they’re coming out with the first feature-length dramatic film focusing on Darwin this Fall, Creation, staring Paul Bettany as the great scientist himself and his real-life wife Jennifer Connelly as his on-screen baby mama (I’m guessing the real Mrs. D wasn’t quite this foxy, due to the whole rudimentary dental care, lack of Pantene Pro-V and that sort of thing, but you gotta sell tickets somehow).

Besides the film, I stumbled across this party in New York, where it seems like people celebrated by honoring the Father of Evolution in a slightly different way: They got naked and cuddled and pretended to be on the Galapagos Islands or something. Looking through the photos (via Flavorwire), I learned that human evolution has slowed to a crawl since  Char Dar first laid down his treatise. There’s no other explanation for the fact that these ne’er-do-wells are able to copulate and propagate.