I couldn't resist passing along this link from the BBC News web site: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1885000/1885384.stm
"Valuable clues to the pace of evolution have been found in the bones of long-dead penguins . . . " " . . . a way of dating species and how long ago they separated from a common ancestor . . . " For anyone concerned about bogomips and jiffies: "But calibrating this clock - working out the length of a single tick - is a tricky business, and no-one is entirely sure how applicable the measure is to different types of organism." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Robert Matthews Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Geneva Tel: +41 22 705 7153 Division Informatique Fax: +41 22 705 7986 24 rue General-Dufour CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
