The Food Chain Friends eat each other and cuddily illustrate Darwinism

Posted by John Brownlee, November 10, 2008 10:57 AM | permalink

I love this adorable series of stuffed animals, the Food Chain Friends, delightfully Darwinian creatures which eat each other in one long daisy chain of carnivorous glutting. $50!

Food Chain Friends [FAO via Gearfuse]

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#1 posted by Marisa , November 10, 2008 11:33 AM

Food chains don't have anything directly to do with either evolution or natural selection (which is usually what Darwinism refers to). I mean, the fact that food chains exist are sort of a byproduct of the way evolution has happened on this planet, but are not central to the theory at all.

Evolution is the theory of how each animal in the food chain got to be the way it is. Likely, the traits they developed were a result of the natural selection process in which the mutations arising in an individual leads to a greater chance of its survival. The greater chance of survival means greater likelihood of passing on the mutation.

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#2 posted by Marisa , November 10, 2008 11:39 AM

Erm I should clarify about natural selection. Mutations can have effects other than increased chance to survival... they happen randomly and can have effects detrimental to survival or have no effect at all on survival as well.

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#3 posted by mdh , November 10, 2008 11:45 AM

In soviet Russia, primary producers eat YOU!

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#4 posted by Anonymous , November 10, 2008 11:49 AM

is it just me or is boing boing getting corrected more lately from comment section
(e.g. Ford getting blamed for stupidly not putting diesel autos in U.S. when it's more likely a smart business decision due to the poor diesel climate in U.S.)

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#5 posted by zuzu