Re: Sinosauropteryx filament melanosomes challenged

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

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Actually I do not think we are in any position to say that high 
intelligence or
a technological civilization are adaptive triumphs for more than a very 
brief
span of time - we seem well on the way to exceeding the carrying 
capacity of our
environment and, perhaps, may be a very short-lived evolutionary 
experiment as
things go.  We have been an industrial civilization for only about 200 
years,
and already seem well on the path to not only destroying our own 
resource base
but eliminating the opportunity for a future industrialized civilization to
arise.  If our civilization collapses, where will the next one get its 
oil, its
metals?  I'm almost 64 years old and I hope our civilization will last 
out my
lifetime, much less the rest of earth's history!  My money is on the 
bacteria.

 Ronald Orenstein
1825 Shady Creek Court
Mississauga, ON L5L 3W2
Canada