From: Robert Eckert (rgeckert@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Sep 15 2004 - 00:07:32 BST
DM, list,
I am currently reading _Perfect Planet, Clever Species: How Unique Are We?_ (2003) by William C. Burger, Curator Emeritus, Field Museum of Natural History.
This book covers the time span you speak to. It is striking just how peculiar and lucky we as a species are, to be on such a planet and in this cognitive position to contemplate ourselves. It seems modern human beings would not have evolved were it not for, among other innumerable chance events, the occasional comet strike.
Robert Eckert
David Morey <us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
Geoffrey Read writes, (Pirsig couldn't put it better himself:)
"When some of the debris circling a nascent sun coalesced to form plant
earth the most
experientially advanced organism upon it was a molecule. Today, some 4.5
billion years
later, it is a human being."
Comments?
DM
MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org
Mail Archives:
Aug '98 - Oct '02 - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/
Nov '02 Onward - http://www.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/summary.html
MD Queries - horse@darkstar.uk.net
To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at:
http://www.moq.org/md/subscribe.html
---------------------------------
Do you Yahoo!?
New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages!
MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org
Mail Archives:
Aug '98 - Oct '02 - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/
Nov '02 Onward - http://www.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/summary.html
MD Queries - horse@darkstar.uk.net
To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at:
http://www.moq.org/md/subscribe.html
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Wed Sep 15 2004 - 00:07:04 BST