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Re: offtopic helmet polishing (was Re: rm fails to remove symbolic links to directories)


On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 10:56:05AM +0100, Lionel B wrote:
>"Christopher Faylor" wrote ...
>>Actually, all kidding aside, this is correct, right?  They think that
>>whales and hippos came from a common ancestor, don't they?
>
>Any two species that ever existed on the planet have a common ancestral
>species...  ok, for a T.  Rex and a greengage plum you might have to go
>back a bit.

Yes, my education did progress beyond the second grade.  Do you REALLY
think that anyone reading this list is so ill-informed as to not
understand how evolution works and needs to be educated on something
this basic?

I suppose if I'd said "recent common ancestor" someone would have said
"It's not so RECENT.  It was 2.5 million YEARS ago."


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