A long day today, so we'll go with an obvious one:
Obviously, this stands in for biology. This brightly colored ceramic fish evolved over millions of years, descended from a long line of increasingly more evolved ceramic fish. Or, possibly, it was bought at an aquarium somewhere. I don't remember which.
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It's cheap, durable, and beautiful. I was going to post on this next week, but Slate beat me to the punch. So instead of reinventing the wheel I'll send you over there.
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I'm reasonably sure it's from Chicago's aquarium in 2003. The other option is last year's cruise, but somehow I don't think so.
Which is not to say that it didn't descend from a long line of increasingly more evolved ceramic fish, of course.
I am greatly amused that, the farther from physics the ornament, the less sensible the explanation.
"descended from a long line of increasingly more evolved ceramic fish."
Presumably, you can tell the evolutionary sequence from the quality of the paint job....