[donh]

Credit where credit is due. You and Nebullis had a discussion maybe a year and a half ago in which some ideas similar to Woese's got bandied about. Among other things, you mentioned that viruses might be linear descendants of the soup rather than evolved from cellulars as more commonly thought.

I believe I can jump into the middle of that discussion right here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a8ef634710e.htm#99

Using a reference of yours I saved. Woese was, in fact, the subject of this particular part of the discussion. I believe the virus quandary was pointed out earlier in the thread, but I'm a little vague about all this now.

[VadeRetro]

Not "similar to Woese," it was Woese! Thanks! That was my first exposure to that stuff.