At 10:03 AM 7/2/99 -0700, Jim P. Flynn wrote:

> I once had a biology professor in junior college who
>liked to point out that the advantage of intelligence as a human
>"skill" that evolved has yet to be decided. I think if we were
>to take a straw poll among all the non-human flora and fauna of
>the world I know how they would feel about it!

They might feel bad about our evolutionary success thus
far, but that wouldn't change the fact that in evolutionary
terms are species has been a success.

Whether we later become a victim of our own success, and
therefore are really evolutionary losers on the long-term
scale, is yet to be determined. We're a very young species,
after all.


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