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   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   Led4Aces wrote:   
   > On Dec 23, 12:18 pm, Dimensional Traveler  wrote:   
   >> Led4Aces wrote:   
   >>> On Dec 22, 12:46 pm, ques...@infionline.net (Harold Groot) wrote:   
   >>>> On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:46:49 -0800 (PST), Led4Aces    
   >>>> wrote:   
   >>>>>> And she created a pathogen that regressed most of the crew into half   
   >>>>>> whatever they were / half one of their ancestors (which doesn't explain   
   w=   
   >>>>> hy   
   >>>>>> Barclay became half spider, since they aren't ancestors of humans)...   
   >>>>> Not exactly. Go back far enough and Humans and spiders have a common   
   >>>>> ancestor. Probably hundreds of millions of years.   
   >>>> Yeah, but none of Barclay's ancestors had actual spider genes.   
   >>> But they have the genes of the common ancestor....which is spider-   
   >>> like.   
   >> Not even close.   
   >   
   > Well you probably are right.  A little digging reveals that the common   
   > ancestor is back further than I thought, not a hundred or two hundred   
   > million years, but closer to 600 million years.   
   >   
   > The common ancestor was more worm-like, likely found in oceans. Some   
   > of the features it might have: A heart, A gut running the length of   
   > the body, A central nervous system, eyespots and limbs of some kind,   
   > not well developed.   
      
   If not even farther back.  100 million years ago was dinosaurs, 200   
   million was early dinosaurs.  (Dinos were around for a _long_ time.)   
   There's strong evidence for simple single cell life existing at least   
   3.8 _billion_ years ago.   
      
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