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- From: gil@tillage.DIALix.oz.au (Gil Hardwick)
- Newsgroups: sci.anthropology
- Subject: Jared Diamond's _The Third Chimpanzee_
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- Message-ID: <727756441snx@tillage.DIALix.oz.au>
- References: <schumach.727671240@convex.convex.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 02:34:01 GMT
- Organization: STAFF STRATEGIES - Anthropologists & Training Agents
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- In article <schumach.727671240@convex.convex.com> schumach@convex.com writes:
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- > It's worse than you think. Gil is not arguing about jargon here:
- > he actually does not believe that humans and chimps share a
- > common ancestor. Thus he has removed himself from a serious
- > discussion of the matter. Next question, please.
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- "Worse than you think!?" Oh, what dreadful, dreadful heresy the ideas
- of this unreasonably contrary antipodean represent! What a dire threat
- to "the world as we know it"! Alack and Alas, woe upon us all!
-
- Can I actually hear wailing, and the shredding of garments there in
- the background? Or is it my two boys fighting again? Hey! You kids!
- What have I been tell you about fighting?
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- Now you can't watch Darkwing Duck or Super Ted for the next week!
-
- Hm! Sigh . . .
-
- Perhaps stronger evidence than has yet been presented will finally
- persuade me to change my tune a little? Until such evidence appears
- here this discussion cannot in any way be regarded as serious, but as
- the fine example of contemporary English surrealism it reveals itself
- so plainly to be.
-
- I have no intention of putting a stop to it; I mean, Art is Art for
- its own sake, and I expect that we would be much worse off without it,
- yes?
-
- Gil
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