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From: michaelm@vax.3Com.Com (Michael McNeil)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.misc
Subject: Re: A Unique characteristic of Humans
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Date: 2 Feb 88 17:53:55 GMT
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Reply-To: michaelm@3comvax.UUCP (Michael McNeil)
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In article <1576@aecom.YU.EDU> werner@aecom.YU.EDU (Craig Werner) writes:
>	Being a parasitologist, it would come naturally that I would note
>the following that is, as far as I know, unique to humans:
>
>	Humans are the the only animal that eats cooked food.
>
>	(What this means in terms of the carriage rate of intestinal parasites
>is enormous - we are probably one of the few non-marine species in which
>it does not approach 100%.  (Although I should point out that approximately
>20-25% of the human species IS infected with Roundworm.)

If we could learn how to cook our sex, and have it taste better to boot...!

Michael McNeil
3Com Corporation
Santa Clara, California
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	Life, even cellular life, may exist out yonder in the dark.  
	But high or low in nature, it will not wear the shape of man.  
	That shape is the evolutionary product of a strange, long
	wandering through the attics of the forest roof, and so
	great are the chances of failure, that nothing precisely
	and identically human is likely ever to come that way again.  
		Loren Eiseley, *The Immense Journey*, 1957