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- From: nkhor@MtHolyoke.edu (Niny Khor)
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- Subject: A bedtime story
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 11:07:11 -0500
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- It all started with simple cells , you know the tiny cute round things you see
- in your typical bio-texts. Then in the Cambrian period, around 630 millions
- years ago, the brachiopods , mollusks , crustaceans and trilobites were
- common life-forms. During the Ordovician period the first fishes appeared.
- Next came the Silurian period where plants and scorpionlike anthropods
- grace the surface of land, and during the Devonian period the first
- insects and amphibians appeared. Thus we came to the Mississippi and
- Pennsylvanian period which saw the proliferation of amphibians and insects
- as well as the emergence of the very first reptiles. Then around 280
- million years ago, dinosaurs emerged. By the Mesozoic era, aquatic
- reptiles dominate the sea, flying repltiles were common, bony fishes
- abundant and modern mammals dominated. But it took more than another 100
- million years before the hominoids emerged -- the species which gave rise
- to pongids and hominids-- the ancestors of homo sapiens.
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- It is not clear how did evolution started nor when. But one fact is clear
- --the Kingdom of Monera has dominated the world for2.5 billion years --
- but look where they are today. Man might dominate for the next few
- centuries but the future is hard to predict. Tolerance and co-operation
- are the keys to mutual survival. So please be done with flames !
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- Hmmmm.... do I hear the Martians coming ?
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- Happy new semester folks! :)
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- My opinions are mine alone,
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- Niny Khor.
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