Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site psivax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!psivax!friesen From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: aquatic origins Message-ID: <155@psivax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 26-Nov-84 13:52:45 EST Article-I.D.: psivax.155 Posted: Mon Nov 26 13:52:45 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 29-Nov-84 03:44:46 EST References: <1516@cvl.UUCP> Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley friesen) Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA Lines: 10 Summary: In article <1516@cvl.UUCP> rlh@cvl.UUCP (Ralph L. Hartley) writes: > * Aquatic animals are the ones that lose their hair, like the > whale, walrus, seal, manatee, hippo, elephant (not really > aquatic, but damn good swimmers). Not completely true, in addition to aquatic animals, large animals also lose their hair(the elephant belongs in this category *not* aquatic). Humanity also belongs in this category - we are larger than about 90% of all animals now living, and the size effect is more pronounced in the tropics where mankind came from.