Re: Jurassic intelligence (time-scale for evolution of alien

[R lindberg + E Winnie <rlindber@kendaco.telebyte.com>]

On Wed, 10 May 1995, Art Berggreen wrote:

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> displace and elaborate relationships develop which help them maintain their 
> place, but creates a system vunerable to collapse.  Once that niche 
> changes or disappears, the specialists are history and the generalists 
> are the ones that survive.  
  In those terms 'we' are about the best generalist ever evolved, since 
we live in any land climate conditions where there is enough food available.
  Unfortunately we are createing specie extintion at a rate that may 
exceed any previously known. Just so it's clear that it's just not modern 
man, look at the extintions in Hawaii and New Zealand when stone age man 
arrived. Both areas were so low 'competitive' that many bird specie had 
lost flight, I think the figure I have heard for flightless bird 
extinsion in Hawaii alone was 20.

  Ralph

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