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To: CobaltBlue
We're (each of us) the descendents of countless generations of beings that actually lived long enough to reproduce! Talk about lucky! How improbable is that?

On the Talk.Origins USENET newsgroup, someone pointed out that the catchphrase "survival of the fittest" sometimes gave the wrong impression to laymen, and challenged the forum to come up with something about as short but more descriptive.

The winner was, "Every single one of your ancestors scored!"

107 posted on 10/30/2003 7:43:12 PM PST by Ichneumon
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To: Ichneumon
We all carry the Teela Brown gene.
112 posted on 10/30/2003 7:44:44 PM PST by Physicist
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To: Ichneumon
Survival of the adequate.
164 posted on 10/30/2003 8:47:01 PM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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