[identity profile] don-fitch.livejournal.com 2012-06-25 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Shouldn't that be "George's grandparents (& farther back) didn't do enough screwing..."? I suspect that George got enough food & water, and reasonably comfortable temperatures, and probably enough opportunites to screw (regardless of whether or not the results were productive ... and I kinda doubt that tortoises give a damn about that, or are even able to comprehend the idea) to consider that he had A Good Life.

If the Homo sapiens (alba, male, old-geezer?) scientists who developed the "subspecies" concept are unhappy... well... as the last surviving member of the Emil Schachenman family (at the age of 83, unlikely to pocreate), my comment is on the order of "Yeah, that kind of thing happens".