On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Philip Hart wrote: #> # On the other hand #> #that was before the whole Ds-are-evolved-humans thing comes out. #> #> Nitpick: modified, not evolved. # #Evolution isn't just the way hippos turned to whales - it can be #"directed" - i.e., the J were the selection pressure. Whether one refers #to planned intervention in the gene code without subsequent competition #(not the way I imagine the J worked to first order) as "evolution" is #perhaps a matter of taste. I can accept that. -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel