Did Charles Darwin the great 19th century British biologist actually state that the chimpanzee is our distant grandad? Not really. In fact he opined that human beings and apes have a common ancestor and complex forms of life evolved from simpler ones. But Satyapal Singh minister of state for HRD has a skeleton to pick with Darwin. Darwin’s theory of evolution is “scientifically wrong”, the minister recently thundered, declaring guerilla war on the gorilla.
Asserted Singh: “Our ancestors haven’t mentioned anywhere that they ever saw an ape turning into a man. Nobody has said or written it.” After all when the ape suddenly transmogrified into a man shouldn’t someone somewhere in the ancient past have at least clicked a selfie? Given that our Read More
