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You're most welcome, Ray. Interesting question, about the correlation. A Ph.D. in England seems to think that a correlation exists between PD and artistic people (in particular, musicians). I couldn't say, but my wife has had PD since 1995, and she is/was a pianist and organist. Pretty smart, too. Scott >===== Original Message From "Parkinson's Information Exchange Network" <[log in to unmask]> ===== >Scott, your knowledge and posts are much appreciated by me. Even though I'm >old I still like to learn. We seem to have lots of very smart, well >educated people on this list and I wonder if there is any correlation with >Parkinson's. >Ray, fellow Arizonan >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Scott E. Antes" <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> >Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 6:33 PM >Subject: Re: Scientific Method etc > > >> Apologies if someone has already answered this. "Survival of the >> fittest," in >> the evolutionary sense, refers to one thing only, and that is the relative >> success of an organism to pass on its genes to future generations. In >> other >> words, if you're an organism that produces offspring who produce offspring >> who >> produce offspring, etc., etc., you're a fit organism. Some organisms are >> much >> more fit than others. Bacteria, for example, are about the fittest >> organisms >> on the planet, having passed on their genetic material for some 3.8 >> billion >> years. Most insects also are very fit. When confronted with climate and >> habitat change, small mammals proved to be more fit than gigantic >> dinosaurs, >> and so on. Scott Antes >> >>>----- Original Message ----- >>>From: "Joe Ryan" <[log in to unmask]> >>>To: <[log in to unmask]> >>>Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 10:29 PM >>>Subject: Scientific Method etc Scott E. Antes Department of Anthropology Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5200 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn