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From: Bob Hughes
Date: 15 Sep 2000 01:06:56
Message: <39c1ae70@news.povray.org>
Mankind is biped but hadn't always been so as the evolution theory goes so
in effect we have only legs.
Penguins walk on two legs also, just thought I'd say something else, not
really adding anything.

Bob

"Bill DeWitt" <the### [at] earthlinknet> wrote in message
news:39c13b1a@news.povray.org...
|
| segmented worm with legs like a caterpillar. It learns to balance on three
| or four segments and those segments develop larger legs. The left over
legs
| become adapted for other things, those closer to the mouth become food
| gathering and manipulating appendages and those closer to the other end
| become waste handlers, sex tools, defensive stings, what ever. So they
| were -all- legs once. If you look closely at the mouth parts, they have
the
| same basic structure as the legs. Are they legs? If so then claws are
legs.
|
|     Something that does not bear much visualizing. Insects, arachnids and
| crustaceans are only slight variations from a similar model. In other
words,
| shrimp, lobsters and crabs are bugs.

Bugs eh?  Interesting thought, crabs as bugs.


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