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To: Tunica Albuginea who wrote (562)	9/15/1999 8:47:00 PM
From: w molloy	Respond to of 69300

in descending order, most similar first...) 1.Man/Windows 2000 2. Bonobo chimp 3. Pongo chimp 4. Gorilla 5. Orang Utan I can see definite progress here. You are missing the point. There is no implied evolutionary superiority, merely a relationship on the primate twig of the evolutionary bush Your points in another post regarding a balanced curiculum are well taken. Can you see this happening in Kansas? I understood the issue here was teaching dogma as science. In my parochial school the two were clearly seperated via Religious Studies, Social Studies, History, Biology and Chemistry. w.

To: Tunica Albuginea who wrote (562)	9/15/1999 9:44:00 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 69300

what percent increase in their gene capacitance It's not a matter of how many genes are present which leads to a trait like intelligence. It's not that the Bonobos don't have enough genes to be as smart as we, it's just that they have the wrong ones. They can't just go out to the 7/11 and order up some new genes, they have to come from their parents (with possible additions from infection or mutation). A billion years from now the various intelligent decendant species are going laugh and laugh that we thought that just because we were the first to be self aware - we would also be the only. TP