In any case, we started out the day by viewing the two Civil War videos from Crash Course from the other day. It is worth noting that it could be argued that the Nation that resulted from the Civil War was a modern United States, and therefore that the critical event for the 20th century in terms of World Wars One and Two as well as the Cold War can really find their roots in the American fight over slavery.
In science, we talked about convergent and divergent evolution, the role of homologous structure in determining ancestral connections, and then watched some of the new BBC series on adaptation: Life. (It is available on Netflix, and I highly recommend it.)
As I said last week, there is no progress report for today, as we are so close to the end of the year.
And now I will go to bed. Ta.