Exhibit: Karpeles Manuscript Library Porter Hall, Buffalo New York

Sept 1 2009 – DEc 31, 2009

How many have seen the movie:

"Attack of the Mutants" ?

I'm not even sure there was such a movie, but there should have been.

How many think that they ARE a mutant?

Surprise, surprise, we are all mutants! If you are slightly taller than your parents are – then, you are a mutant. If you have feet, one shoe size smaller than your parents, you are

also a mutation. We are all mutations in one aspect or another. It is a fact of life that offspring will have some characteristics that differ from their parents.

Darwin's Theory

Now, let's consider the life of a giraffe. Much of their day is spent eating leaves off of trees. They don't have much competition, except for other giraffes.

Once in a while a SHORT giraffe will be under-nourished as the TALL giraffes can always eat the higher leaves when the lower ones are all eaten. This poor SHORT giraffe will be weak and easy prey for predators and disease. He may die before he even had a chance to find a mate. Most of the TALL giraffes will have no problem and will even have offspring - baby TALL giraffes.

Of course, most of the SHORT giraffes 'make do' and also survive. But after thousands of years, enough of the short giraffes have , without offspring, that the TALL giraffes now start to outnumber the SHORT giraffes by quite a margin.

However, after thousands of more years, even the TALL giraffes are having a few problems. There are now a few offspring that are mutations of the TALL giraffes – they are - the TALLER giraffes!

Many thousands of years pass and the competition of the TALL giraffes AND the TALLER giraffes has been too much for the poor SHORT giraffe family and they are now extinct. The SHORT giraffes have been a victim of the " survival of the fittest " !! [Also called Darwin's The Theory of Natural Selection]

You guessed it! The TALL giraffes are becoming under-nourished and weak and easy prey for predators and disease. The TALLER giraffes soon start to outnumber the TALL giraffes.

After thousands of years more, even the TALLER giraffes are also having a few problems. There are now a few offspring that are mutations of the TALLER giraffes – they are - the TALLER-YET giraffes! Soon the TALL giraffes will be extinct and only the TALLER and the TALLER-YET giraffes will survive.

Of course, this process will stop when all giraffes are tall enough to reach any leaves.

This is Darwin's Theory. Indeed giraffes don't stretch their necks and pass along stretched necks to their offspring. Instead, mutations and survival of the fittest determine the future of a species.