>i'm proud to have evolved from hairy beasts, especially since >those hairy beasts still exist today. > It's funny, gorillas and chimpanzees are actually more like our cousins. They're not literally what we descended from...they're just another evolutionary path from the same common ancestor. Our genetic code is 1.6% different from that of pygmy chimpanzee's...they're the closest cousins. Monkeys are pretty much way, way off on their own tangent... Anthropology is really interesting...the changes that occured when we became bipedal, how female apes have little to no pain in childbirth, but because we are exclusively upright-walking animals, our pelvises had to change so drastically that it's an excrutiating experience. Also the general trend in evolution...how we will have really high foreheads and little to no body hair, gigantic heads, women with obscenely wide hips. I'm personally hoping for the development of telekinesis and telepathy, with brains that huge we'd have to come up with something like that. And space travel. I want to go to the next galaxy (the name of which eludes me right this second...damn the drugs). Ooo...and flying cars that don't pollute, and a solution to the population problem, and clean air/water/soil, and, and... ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
