• Question: If you had to pick, who would you rather spend a night in a hotel room with; Charles Darwin or Carl Linnaeus and why? Purely to... discuss... of course.

    Asked by thebigmacs to Anzy, Aoife, Dave, Matt, Tomasz on 19 Nov 2013.
    • Photo: David Christensen

      David Christensen answered on 19 Nov 2013:

      I’d definitely go with Darwin. Darwin’s theory of evolution is a pretty awesome bit of science. I don’t know a lot about Carl Linnaeus, but he’s known for his work in classifying organisms into different families, which isn’t something that I find that interesting. Also, my Swedish isn’t that good and I don’t know how good Linnaeus’s English is, so maybe we wouldn’t be able to talk that easily!

    • Photo: Matthew Tomlinson

      Matthew Tomlinson answered on 19 Nov 2013:

      Darwin, he changed our understanding of human’s place in the world. Great beard too.

    • Photo: Aoife O'Shaughnessy-Kirwan

      Aoife O'Shaughnessy-Kirwan answered on 19 Nov 2013:

      Darwin! No competition! He would be incredibly interesting. He had little quirks in his personality and life experiences that I would be very interested to hear about too : )

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