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- From: colby@bu-bio.bu.edu (Chris Colby)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: question about Bob's winter wardrobe
- Message-ID: <102966@bu.edu>
- Date: 24 Nov 92 02:09:28 GMT
- References: <7694@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM>
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- Organization: animal -- coelomate -- deuterostome
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- In article <7694@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> bobb@tekig1.PEN.TEK.COM (Robert W Bales) writes:
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- >Possesion of *half* of what is needed to lock feathers
- >together would offer no advantage, so each structure *by itself* would not be
- >selected for.
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- Ever worn a down jacket, Bob?
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- >Without the structures needed for interlocking, there would be
- >no interlocking mechanism.
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- Nice sentence, Bob 8-)
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- > Bob Bales
-
- Chris Colby --- email: colby@bu-bio.bu.edu ---
- "'My boy,' he said, 'you are descended from a long line of determined,
- resourceful, microscopic tadpoles--champions every one.'"
- --Kurt Vonnegut from "Galapagos"
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