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  "thread": {
    "id": 1532,
    "subject": "For everyone: chromosomes and a chat with Occam",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2002-01-09T05:23:58+00:00",
    "last": "2002-01-09T05:23:58+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0013-whorl.v012.n185.3@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "maa32",
        "address": "maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu"
      },
      "date": "2002-01-09T05:23:58+00:00",
      "subject": "For everyone: chromosomes and a chat with Occam",
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          "text": "Matthew so kindly pointed out:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Methinks a chat with Richard of Occam would be good for you. :-)"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "Maybe there was a bottlekneck effect that really favored multiply limbed or \nallopolypliod mutation (and by the way, in plants, you can usually double the \nchromosomes and still get a viable (but perhaps not always fertile) plant - \nit's a very common vegetable mutation).  Polyploidization restores fertility.  \nAnd this also supports my idea that all life is descended from terraformed \nplants, that ate the animals, added their chromosomes to their own, and became \nthem, only multiply limbed because of the chromosomal abberations.\n\nAll right. I will repeat this stuff one more time. If we have two huge planets \nthat are green and blue, and all those details that I brought up about the \nmoon's relative position, and how every change that Hoof notes from Urth and \nBlue can be accounted for by the coming of the New Sun (hoof emphasizes how \nthe color of the sea is different, mostly due to the Sun, and how salty the \nwater is TWICE ->and when the ice is melted, it is going to make the sea less \nsalty, and the sun will make the sea a different color), and how he CALLS LUNE \nGREEN, and how all those little bits about the narrator's voice coming from \nthe distant past somewhere, versus a scruple about the Neighbors, who are \ncalled THE PEOPLE OF THAT TOWN, with a Greater Scylla on both worlds, either \nof which can tell Silk where Seawrack is, and a big ass wall underwater that \nSeawrack talks about, what would Occam say? (And why the heck does Malrubius \nlook like Silk?!) The spirits of the people of Nessus are angry at being \ndrowned.\nBut, as I've already said, I really don't care about this scruple.  I just \nthink it isn't too cool to ignore all those details from a writer like Wolfe.  \nWhat would Occam's Razor say? Throw out that double-limbed crap -> we know \nthat urth knew how to genetically engineer any kind of beast it wanted to, as \nwell as having encountered indigenous animals that can form as many limbs as \nthey want in the inhumu - who can mysteriously feed on and become like both \nthe Vanished PEOPLE and regular people, too from eating their blood -> it's \npretty obvious these animals can change and adapt in one generation.  And that \nthose trees eat each other."
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