Sadly, with all the work that I had to get through last week, coupled with me getting the flu…despite getting a flu shot, thanks NIH for missing half the strains this year…I missed this next story which I should have put on the blog in time for Saint Patrick’s Day.
The story concerns the discovery over the past few years of a species of humans that existed about 18,000 years ago on the islands of Palau, which is interesting given the reasoning behind the existence of this humanoid specie.
“Populations on isolated islands with limited resources often evolve short statures.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/science/18litt.html
So there you have it from scientific experts in their fields…there are leprechauns! After all Ireland is part of an island nation of limited resources, especially if you recall the potato famine that all but wiped out Ireland after a fungus that originated in Mexico devastated the potato crop from 1846-1849. So defacto, this proves the existence of the “wee people” that are found in the lore of the Irish and will only intensify the search for their pots of gold, to be found at the end of the rainbow.
You have to love science when it proves the existence of leprechauns…makes me proud to be a scientist after all.
Hope you all had a happy and safe St. Paddy Day, and I hope that the green beer has worked it’s way through your system by now. That I'm even posting this means that the codeine that I've been taking hasn't left my system yet... Bail ó Dhia ort
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