On 10/11/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robert J. Bradbury</b> <<a href="mailto:bradbury@aeiveos.com">bradbury@aeiveos.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
As the advance detection of an earthquake would have<br>clear survival advantages I would not find it at all<br>unreasonable to have evolved and been incorporated.</blockquote><div><br>
Would it? How would an earthquake harm a pigeon on the ground? It
doesn't normally harm humans on the ground (at least not enough to
exert significant selection pressure); it's being in a
brick/stone/concrete building that kills you.<br>
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- Russell<br>
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