Re: Is this group really as clique as it appears?

Ian Robinson <junk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:15:27 +0100, Andy Hewitt wrote
(in article <1hxdodd.1qa2cys19ahartN%wildrover.andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

Well, a little googling finds first life of any kind was about 3.7
billion years ago.

Yep.

My original point was that multicellular life arose between 1 billion
years ago and the Cambrian explosion about 600 Ma ago. I was also
assuming that multicellular life, and the associate sensory machinery
that goes with it, would be required to contemplate the world at some
level.

Dawkin's "The Ancestor's Tale" is a good book on the evolution of life.

OK, I was only passing on what I'd found in various university web
sites. It's certainly obvious that various states of lifeform are argued
about a lot, so I don't think it's worth getting into that here.

--
Andy Hewitt
<http://web.mac.com/andrewhewitt1/>
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