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From: ethan@utastro.UUCP (Ethan Vishniac)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Save the Unborn Shuttles
Message-ID: <418@utastro.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Feb-86 11:32:45 EST
Article-I.D.: utastro.418
Posted: Mon Feb 24 11:32:45 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 26-Feb-86 20:06:08 EST
References: <[MC.LCS.MIT.EDU].826580.860221.KFL>
Organization: U. Texas, Astronomy, Austin, TX
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Summary: apes

In article <[MC.LCS.MIT.EDU].826580.860221.KFL>, KFL@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU ("Keith F. Lynch") writes:
> 
>     From: unmvax!nmtvax!fine@ucbvax.berkeley.edu  (Andrew J Fine)
> 
>     If humanity can simply change from mere descendants of carnivorous apes to
>     something totally gentle, altrustic, and noble, then Earth will be enough.
> 
>   We are descended from herbiverous apes.

We are probably descended from omnivorous apes.  Certainly Chimpanzees are
omnivorous and their lifestyle is often taken as a model for 
pre-australophithecines.  Question for both of you, would you rather
be descended from wolves or sheep?  Why?  Is there some way that this either
would change your opinion of people?
-- 
"Ma, I've been to another      Ethan Vishniac
 planet!"                      {charm,ut-sally,ut-ngp,noao}!utastro!ethan
                               ethan@astro.UTEXAS.EDU
                               Department of Astronomy
                               University of Texas