From: Elizabeth Childs (echilds@linex.com)
Date: Sat Jul 03 1999 - 13:25:28 MDT
I meant that our very distant ancestors, the mammals who co-existed with
the dinosaurs, might have developed an instinct to fear all giant
lizards. It seems possible - although, I admit, romantically
speculative - that the instinct persists in a vestigial form.
I suspect the other instincts that I named date from pre-human evolution
as well.
Evolution is miraculous, but it isn't very efficient. Neither the human
body nor the human brain has a designer. Thus, weird stuff can end up
in the works.
Spike Jones wrote:
>
> Elizabeth Childs wonders:
>
> > ...if we don't have some aesthetic memory of the dinosaurs...
>
> We dont. Missed em by several tens of millions of years. However,
> if the ancients found dinosaur skeletons, they would be at a loss to
> explain them. Perhaps the flood legend recorded in the book of
> Genesis came from finding fossils of sea creatures on mountainsides,
> and the dinosaur legends were spawned by the discovery
> of a t-rex skeleton? spike
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