HEADLINES for the scientifically literate

[Janice Boyd <janice.boyd@neptunesci.com>]

Hello, all:
If more of the people in the US were scientifically literate, I would send 
this to Jay Leno's HEADLINES segment on the Tonight Show.  Since that is 
not the case and since this is the only group I have contact with that can 
appreciate this boo-boo, I am pleased to present the following excerpt from 
a recent edition of the magazine Louisiana Cultural Vistas:

"Domesticated pigs date back 23 million years to the Miocene epoch in 
present-day Kazakhstan.
At that time, there were three major varieties of domestic swine on the 
planet:  the Asiatic, the Neapolitan, and the Celtic.  As soon as nomadic 
tribes began to make contact, pigs cross-bred with one another and with 
wild boars, to create thousands of hog breeds."

Imagine.  In the Miocene.

(giggle)

Regards
Janice