Re: Apology to Ms. Morgan

Lee Burwasser (lburwasser@crs.loc.gov)
10 Jul 1996 22:58:24 GMT

Stephen Barnard <steve@megafauna.com> wrote:
> [[snip]] Why is this hypothesis [AAH] such a threat? [[snip]]

> Steve Barnard

Because it's a dethronement (to use Dr. Asimov's term). The differences
between us and the apes become nothing more than adaptations to a
radically different environment. No more billion-to-one chance piled on
top of billion-to-one chance. We really are simply one more example of
natural selection in action.

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Lee Burwasser         lburwasser@crs.loc.gov

Landover  MD   USA

*working stiff -- don't blame me for policy*