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"Aidan Karley"
<doIlookDAFTenoughTOpost@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
in message
news:VA.00000c63.21ef92f2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> In article <pan.2006.02.17.10.38.51.364312@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Eduard
Groenstein
> wrote:
> > > Well apart from that, if it was all designed intelligently,
why have so
> > > many species already died out? I particularly would have
thought that as
> > > Trilobites were a very good design, I would have kept them
around. I'd
> > > really like a Trilobite as a pet. It could go round the
floor cleaning
> > > the house for me :-)
> > >
> > >
> > Mr Trilobite had a very interesting calcite eye which used no
moving
> > parts. I wonder if these guys hunted/stung things or ate
carrion.
> >
> Which made me think of good old Calymene. I'd like a pet
trilobite
> too.
>
> Interesting factoid : far more trilobites have been
found with bites
> or scars on their right lobe than on their left lobe. Assuming
that the
> collectors don't have a particular bias to throwing away
left-hand damaged
> specimens, then something out ther tried attacking trilobites
from the
> right. Or the trilobites veered to their right ...
My anticipation would be that trilobites had a preponderant
tendency to
veer right when suprised, likely demonstrating a preferential
"handedness"
in their neural development.
At another level, most people are right handed and most
right-handed
people are right legged and right eyed in terms of dominance.
When people are chased,especially from above, they tend to turn
right and run downhill.
Regards,
Edward Hennessey
if those choices are available.
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