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From: lew@ihlpa.UUCP (Lew Mammel, Jr.)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: re: shark discussion
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Date: Fri, 29-Mar-85 10:51:21 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 29 10:51:21 1985
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Paul DuBois quoted [Ernest Hua / Keebler] as saying:

	We might say that the shark is far more perfect [than man]
	since it has managed to survive so long and so simply.

He then gave a long quote from a textbook to the effect that sharks were
not a primitive fish form, i.e. not ancestral to bony fishes. He then
castigated [Hua / Keebler] for not checking their statements etc.

However, please note that the original point stands as it was made.
Sharks appeared in the Devonian, and existed in essentially their modern
form in the Mesozoic. This means that they have existed virtually unchanged
for ~200 million years. Humans appeared in their modern form less than
1 million years ago.

	Lew Mammel, Jr. ihnp4!ihlpa!lew