RE: Evolution in science fiction

["ralphchapman" <ralphchapman@earthlink.net>]

I don't know if this has yet to be mentioned but when it comes to lucid and
wonderful discussions on evolution, especially human, in the context of an
apparently impossible find, James P. Hogan's Inherit the Stars is fabulous.
Scientists as humans who try hard to solve a problem, gotta love it.  

Ralph Chapman

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
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Subject: RE: Evolution in science fiction

> From: owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu [mailto:owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu] 
> On Behalf Of Roberto Takata
>
> One more science fiction (actually, horror story) based on
> "evolution": Mimic. Genetically modified bugs population 
> develops (in subway system tunnels) into human-hunting 
> creatures that mimic human silhouette.
> 
> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119675/usercomments
> ----------------

Based on a short short by Donald Wollheim.

(Okay, I may be something of a SMOF (*), but I still had to look that one
up. I remember reading it in my youth, though.)

* look it up.

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
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