Re: Children's Book: Suggestions Solicited

[Roy Plotnick <plotnick@xxxxxxx>]

The "Climb From Slime"  is to catch their interest (the other possibility was
"From Pond Scum to You").  The book is not going to be scale of nature in
approach; the "tree-of-life" is our recurrent metaphor.  Nevertheless,
whether you want to use the word "progress" or not, isn't the sequence
procaryote-eucaryote-multicellular directional?  -Roy
Roy E. Plotnick
Geological Sciences
University of Illinois at Chicago
845 W. Taylor St.
Chicago, IL 60607
plotnick@uic.edu
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"The scientific celebrities, forgetting their molluscs and glacial
 periods, gossiped about art, while devoting themselves to oysters
 and ices with characteristic energy.." -Little Women, Louisa 
 May Alcott