From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp*lib.org)
Date: Sun Nov 23 1997 - 22:37:53 MST
xAt 03:13 PM 11/23/97 -0800, you wrote:
>On Nov 22, 11:49pm, "Michael M. Butler" wrote:
>
>} I don't think you are taking the point I'm tryiing to make, which is
>that molluscs } are very nearly as different from us, evolutionarily, as
>insects. This almost puts } them in the microorganism camp
>
>I don't now what that means.
Well, permit me to tell you what I meant to mean. :) I meant to mean that
their goals and our goals may not be any more copasetic than our goals and
(hypothetical) microorganism goals.
>Current phylogenetic trees have all
>animals as one small branch of life. The real evolutionary diversity is
>in the bacteria and archaea; animals are just rearrangements of masses
>of the animal eukaryotic cell.
>
>Molluscs are different, yeah. "In the microorganism camp", probably
>not.
I apologize for my part in the misunderstanding. I was not referring to raw
genome similarity. OK?
MMB
NB: that asterisk in the email address above is really a hyphen, if you're
not trying to sell me something. :)
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