On Sep 25, 2005, at 11:22 PM, Dave Land wrote:
On Sep 25, 2005, at 11:01 PM, Warren Ockrassa wrote:
The secret ingredient appears to have been sex. Asexual reproduction,
in addition to being rather boring, doesn't introduce anywhere near
the possibility for diversification of a genome like sex does. So
somewhere around 700 to 1000 million years ago, life discovered this
new way to do things, and that seems to have been the real turning
point.
It's all about sex with you people, isn't it?
F*ck yeah it is.
;)
Really, it pushes back the question of where life begins. Seems like
conception isn't it, dunnit?
--
Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books
<http://books.nightwares.com/>
Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror"
<http://books.nightwares.com/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf>
<http://books.nightwares.com/ockrassa/Storms_on_a_Flat_Placid_Sea.pdf>
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