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  "thread": {
    "id": 6012,
    "subject": "Dollo's Law...",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 3,
    "first": "2011-05-16T15:10:39+00:00",
    "last": "2011-05-16T16:47:59+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<BANLkTin8dAhhHUx3ouCBGh+hcqHzuJBnSw@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes",
        "address": "danldo at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2011-05-16T15:10:39+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Dollo's Law...",
      "in_reply_to": null,
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          "text": "... appears to be more, well, a guideline.\n\nhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110511162538.htm"
        },
        {
          "kind": "sig",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes"
        }
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    },
    {
      "message_id": "<603314.3775.qm@web84108.mail.mud.yahoo.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "DAVID STOCKHOFF",
        "address": "dstockhoff at verizon.net"
      },
      "date": "2011-05-16T15:27:19+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Dollo's Law...",
      "in_reply_to": "<BANLkTin8dAhhHUx3ouCBGh+hcqHzuJBnSw@mail.gmail.com>",
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          "text": "Like most of these Laws turn out to be.\n\n\"... In 2003, scientists showed that some species of insects have gained, lost and regained wings over millions of years.\"\n\nThat's a good example of a common-sense reversible adaptation. If humans experienced million-year floods every million years, we might evolve, devolve, and revolve webbed fingers and toes---because the original structure from which the webs were derived are still going to be around. Evolution uses the tools at hand. Tress have used and re-used the same basic leaf shapes for millions of years. \n\nI have forgotten the trait that brought up Dollo's Law---mind projection? mimicry? opposable thumbs?"
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          "text": "--- On Mon, 5/16/11, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com> wrote:\nFrom: Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com>\nSubject: (urth) Dollo's Law...\nTo: \"The Urth Mailing List\" <urth at lists.urth.net>\nDate: Monday, May 16, 2011, 11:10 AM\n... appears to be more, well, a\nguideline.\n\nhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110511162538.htm\n\n-- \nDan'l Danehy-Oakes\n_______________________________________________"
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    {
      "message_id": "<4DD1553F.6060602@io.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jeff Wilson",
        "address": "jwilson at io.com"
      },
      "date": "2011-05-16T16:47:59+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Dollo's Law...",
      "in_reply_to": "<BANLkTin8dAhhHUx3ouCBGh+hcqHzuJBnSw@mail.gmail.com>",
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          "text": "On 5/16/2011 10:10 AM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:\n... appears to be more, well, a guideline.\n\nhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110511162538.htm"
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          "text": "This looks like part of the stuff I mentioned the last time we went \naround on Dollo, or maybe the time before. I am so glad that I didn't \njust imagine it."
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          "text": "Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com\nComputational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana\n< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >"
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