Martha Adams wrote:


I don't see how this thread jumped over to eugenics and genetics in
its very first response.


Expect the unexpected! That is the very basis of the forward march of
humanity's mental evolution!
If you heard a clawing at the door, and looked through the peephole in
it to see nothing, you might think it is one of Scott Lowther's cats
fleeing from his desert survivalist hideaway due to being driven
half-mad and half-blind from being photographed too much, and invite it
in to protect it, in your mercy.
But what if it _wasn't_ one of those?
What... if instead... it was crouching Saber-Tooth Tiger thrown through
some sort of time warp that ended up gnawing a bone of a Mastodon
directly in front of your door?
How the Hell are you going to deal with _that_ situation when you open
the door?
Huh?
How are you to going deal with _THAT_?
You had better be thinking pretty damn fast at that moment, Homo Sapiens
Girl, hadn't you?
That's just a hypothetical situation, but it's something worth thinking
about.
I think about it.
I think about it _a lot_. :-D

Pat