Out of the mouths of babes - re evolution`

[LeftishBrit]

I recently was given a book of Australian children's chants and rhymes, 'All Right Vegemite', compiled by June Factor. A lot of the rhymes were very familiar to me from my English childhood; but there were one or two unfamiliar ones. I thought this one just about summed up the whole principle of evolutionary adaptation - and indeed of some of the biggest problems in medicine:

If you build a better mousetrap
And put it in your house,
Before long Mother Nature
Will build a better mouse.


The Australian playgrounds also produced one of the best summaries I've seen of the principles of right-libertarianism:

Australia is a free land,
Free without a doubt.
If you haven't any dinner,
Then you're free to go without.