Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!cmcl2!lanl!beta!dd
From: dd@beta.lanl.gov (Dan Davison)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: The Virus
Message-ID: <22884@beta.lanl.gov>
Date: 3 Dec 88 06:30:54 GMT
References: <1491@murdu.Oz> <22882@beta.lanl.gov>
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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In Article <1491@murdu.Oz>, Sam@murdu.Oz (Sam Ganesan) Writes:
> 	The Virus Was The First To Live,
> 	Or Lean In That Direction; Now We Give
> 		Lend Our Peculiar Tone To Our Death Knells.
> -Michael Newman

What I forgot to mention is that it is unbelievely unlikely that
viruses came first; are there any which are not obligate
parasites?


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