#3127: Where Babies Come From
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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.