Thank you for this information,
and remember, the list is viewable
through www.egroups.com, so there's
no need to be directly subject
to it's corruption (--I've only liked
to look in occasionally to see how
poorly Levitt is doing, who should
be more responsible).

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From: Robert Maxwell Young
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: 10/8/00 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: Unsubscribing

> message to: [log in to unmask]
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> > T. Scheinfeldt [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > wrote on 8oct2000 :
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> [t.s.] How do I unsubscribe?


In parting, three cheers to one who
wasn't terribly off track :



-----Original Message-----
From: F.D.A. Pires [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: 5/oct/00

> I think it is a bit more complicated than
> that. Several factors contribute to the
> difficulty students experience when [superficially
> beginning] the [years long study that may
> result in] learning about [bio-]evolution:
>
> 1. Lack of a conceptual framework, [if not basic
> mental capacity,] to evaluate time in [the]
> millions and billions of years of [galactic &
> helio-planetary evolution of which it was part].
>
> 2. The lack of first-hand taxonomic & anatomic
> knowledge of species diversity (now fashionably
> called "biodiversity").
>
> 3. Common sense. We don't easily see evolution
> of ourselves, societies, & as portrayed through
> selective manipulation of agriculture & hobby
> animals ???
>

...<snip some decent material>...

...<snip some veering-off in the wrong direction>...

...<snip some more>...


> Fernando
>
> (Visiting professor, Ecology and Health
> Research Centre, Otago University,
> at Wellington) - now back home in Brasil.
>
> Prof. Dr. Fernando Dias de Avila Pires
> Instituto Oswaldo Cruz/UFSC
> Rua Bico de Lacre, 79
> 88050-150 Florianopolis, SC, BRASIL
> phone: + 55 48 2351490
> fax: + 55 48 2352275  (computer modem)
> fax convencional: + 1 530 3259534


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