Well, permit me to tell you what I meant to mean. :) I meant to mean that
their goals and our goals may not be any more copasetic than our goals and
(hypothetical) microorganism goals.
>Current phylogenetic trees have all
>animals as one small branch of life. The real evolutionary diversity is
>in the bacteria and archaea; animals are just rearrangements of masses
>of the animal eukaryotic cell.
>
>Molluscs are different, yeah. "In the microorganism camp", probably
>not.
I apologize for my part in the misunderstanding. I was not referring to raw
genome similarity. OK?
MMB
NB: that asterisk in the email address above is really a hyphen, if you're
not trying to sell me something. :)