#3127: Where Babies Come From

XKCD comic, described below.
Transcript

Various experts answer the question “Where do babies come from?”

[Five characters are shown, left to right, each saying their answer. Below each character is their respective occupation.]

Hairy [Geneticist]: Recent admixture event, roughly 0.001 Kya.

Ponytail [Astronomer]: Low-impulse ejection from a parent body.

Hairbun [Software engineer]: Off-by-one error in the population calculations.

Cueball [Geologist]: The area was originally a uniform plane, but the non-baby parts eroded at higher rates.

Megan [Meteorologist]: Moist ground-level turbulent mixing.


(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)

Title text:Historians: Contemporaneous documentation of the initial events is often sparse, and in fact people often get testy and uncooperative when we urge better documentation for the historical record.


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