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Article #154Re: What's Necessary?
From: Russell Hockins
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 20:32
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 20:32
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In article <1992Dec17.030412.4185@pony.Ingres.COM> donj@Ingres.COM (Don Johnson) writes: >In article <38511078@hpindda.cup.hp.com> alanm@hpindda.cup.hp.com (Alan McGowen) writes: >> >>*None* of the species inventory of any ecosystem is "necessary" in the >>sense that it *has* to exist. All of these things are products of >>contingency -- of the *history* of life. We too are products of that >>contingency. >> How interesting to find out that we [ humans ] are not necessary. I suppose that means we don't have to worry about Somalia any more eh? I wonder how many of those 'unnecessary' species were involved in the 'contingency' production of the human species. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Russell Hockins | This civilization is recyclable | | Innovative Interfaces, Inc. | ( well most of it anyway ) | | My own opinions no one elses | packet : ka6foy @ ki6yk.#nocal.ca.na.usa |
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!vega!enrico!rhockins From: rhockins@enrico.tmc.edu (Russell Hockins) Newsgroups: ca.environment Subject: Re: What's Necessary? Message-ID: <466@vega.iii.com> Date: 17 Dec 92 20:32:41 GMT References: <38511078@hpindda.cup.hp.com> <1992Dec17.030412.4185@pony.Ingres.COM> Sender: usenet@vega.iii.com Organization: /etc/organization Lines: 21