On 26 May 2014 19:11, Kim Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > On 26 May 2014, at 4:42 pm, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > > Functionally similar (perhaps), but certainly not genetically similar. We > aren't even gentically similar enough to interbreed with any other species > that evolved on the same planet under very similar conditions to us - for > example, we are very closely related to chimps, but we still can't > interbreed with them. > > If aliens tinkered with our genes then there is a non-null possibility > that we are more closely related to them genetically than we are to chimps, > sea slugs or grass. That would appear to be the purpose of their > intereference with evolution. Perhaps evolution is just a little bit too > slow for them. > > If aliens tinkered with our genes, they did a damn poor job. I can think of a dozen things they could have improved. I want to hear like a bat, see infra red like a snake, regrow limbs like a salamander, run like a cheetah, have night vision like a owl, be able to hold my breath like a whale, float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
(And I have a few suggestions for how the male sex could be improved, but I'll keep those to myself.) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
