>> > - Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they   
   >> >   could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were   
   >> >   moving toward a set goal.   
   >> >   
   >> > George Gaylord Simpson   
   >>   
   >> Yes,   
   >   
   >No. Civilisations evolve exactly as if they were run by   
   >power-grubbing aristocrats or autocrats, mostly capitalist,   
   >but some communist.   
      
   giggle   
      
   >>      but the term civilazation is not very useful.   
   >>   
   >> What that term means is one of the several complex state level   
   >> cultures that arose some 5k and thereafter years or so ago.   
   >   
   >Wrong again, lunatic. It means city living: settled, as opposed   
   >to nomadic.   
      
   giggle   
      
   It is refreshing to see instant net experts do their thing.   
      
   That is someone who being ignorant of a topic is not bound by the facts   
   to reach an absolute conclusion on any topic.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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