On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 14:33 Ken Stuart wrote:

>On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 23:33 Eva Hedin wrote:
>
>>> Agriculture didn't hijack civilization,
>>> it created civilization.
>>
>>I'm not sure about that. Wheat had a plan.
>>It got into the needs of people
>>and people carried it over the world.

>
>Plants don't have plans.

Funny you should say this when you did.  I heard a broadcast yesterday
morning which - for rhetorical effect - supposes that plants DID have
plans.  As the broadcastit has a strong evolutionary thread, I thought you
might find it both interesting and amusing.  Here is the link to the
transcript:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ockham/stories/s1220136.htm

You can also listen to the broadcast over the net from the same link.

Keith