Liev's Postpostulate

Andy Robertson · 11 May 2002, 07:49 · from urth-v0205.mbox · original

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From: "Andy Robertson" <andywrobertson at clara.co.uk>
Subject: Re: (urth) Liev's Postpostulate
Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 08:49:43 +0100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Wilson" <
> > Possibly they were an ancient human colony or abductee group that went
> > through a evolutionary bottleneck.   Or possibly Victor merely believes
> > this.
>
> But Dollo's law is crap; it's violated by marine mammals, and moths that
> alight on trees in once-polluted areas.
>

No, it's not crap, but like most things about biology it is a rule rather
than a law.   But of course this is significant for what it tells us about
Victor's assumptions, not the ficticious real biology of Saint Anne


    hartshorn




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