Darwin did in the Werewolf and the Vampire

When Darwin published his Theory of Evolution, werewolves and vampires went out of favor.

The possibility of a canine-human primate now seemed remote. Perhaps even more unlikely: a bat-human hybrid.

Of course, there is the Underworld series where werewolves called Lykins revolt against their vampire masters. Vampires are even more improbable.

Physicists Costas Efthimiou and Sohang Gandhi published a paper where they demonstrate, by virtue of geometric progression, that vampires could not exist.

It turns out that the vampire's method of feeding and reproduction would deplete their food supply very quickly. Their paper, "Cinema Fiction vs. Physics Reality," assumes that the first vampire appeared on January 1, 1600. By June 1602 everybody on the world would have had their blood drained.

In a upcoming meeting of the British Society for the History of Science, Brian Regal, a Kean University historian in Union, N.J., will demonstrate how werewolves tales which lasted for centuries, died out in folklore following the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species in 1859.

Today the creatures of folk lore are the Big Foot, the Skunk Ape, the Sasquatch and the Yeti. It's all due to Darwin and his Theory of evolution.

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blogs.usatoday.com/sciencefair/2009/06/darwin-did-in-the-werewolf.html


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