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 Lines: 16 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? -- dan davison/theoretical biology/t-10 ms k710/los alamos national laboratory los alamos, nm 875545/dd@lanl.gov (arpa)/dd@lanl.uucp(new)/..cmcl2!lanl!dd 'The true mark of intelligence is an unwillingness to fill in the many gaps in our understanding with a set of irrational beliefs'(Keats,paraphrased)