Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!otter.hpl.hp.com!hpltoad!cdollin!kers From: kers@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Chris Dollin) Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel Subject: Re: On classification Message-ID: Date: 22 Apr 91 12:25:46 GMT References: <527@eiffel.UUCP> <1135@tetrauk.UUCP> Sender: news@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Usenet News Administrator) Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK. Lines: 14 In-Reply-To: chl@cs.man.ac.uk's message of 17 Apr 91 08:41:00 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: cdollin.hpl.hp.com Charles Lindsey says: Yes, but the first mammal had to evolve from something, and that something was a dinosaur. References? [The dinosaurs were not the *only* species around at the time; what makes you think it was from them that the mammals evolved. I understood that the ancestral mammal was around at the time, anyway. What little I know about the issue has been distorted from Stephen Jay Gould's ``popular'' books.] -- Regards, Kers. | "You're better off not dreaming of the things to come; Caravan: | Dreams are always ending far too soon."