> From: jcm19 at columbia.edu (Juan Carlos Morales)
> Subject: Re: Information and Evolution
> Date: 15 Nov 1994 05:39:14 -0800
> "One bad thing about having your ears always on is that one runs
the risk
> of listening to things like this..."
> - Felipito (from the Argentinian comic series Mafalda)
>>> On Mon, 14 Nov 1994, AROUTIOUN AGADJANIAN wrote:
>> > Our team has developed a scientific theory about new type of
> > transmission of information between living creatures within
biological
> > species.
> >
> > The main idea of this theory is that killed creatures transmit
by
> > unknown way all information they gathered during their life to
the
> > survivors of the same species at the moment of death. ....
> > Analogically, continuing the experiments on silkworm for a
rather long
> > period of time it might be possible to receive a population of
silkworm
> > with caterpillars genetically protected from being killed by
needle.
> >
> > Analogically, it might be possible for example to develop frost-
> > resistant lemon-trees...
Why stop there?? Vacuum-resistant humans! Bullet-resistant
soldiers!! Toxic-waste-eating cattle!!! Sorry...
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