Artificial babies have
>artificial brain cells.

Hhmmm.  Maybe this explains some of my bottle-fed colleagues
behavior....they have artificial brains.


Re: Sweat Glands
>becaue the breast is sort of an enlarged sweat gland,

Actually, the most recent research on the evolution of lactation, by Daniel
Blackburn, suggests that the proto-lacteal glands were originally derived
from sebaceous glands and apocrine glands, rather than eccrine (sweat)
glands.  They evolved before viviparity (before live-birth) and first
excreted anti-microbial agents to protect the eggs in the nest from
infective bacterial, only adding their nutritive function later.  Wonderful
article on this can be found in Mammal Review, 1991, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp.
81-96, Evolutionary origins of the mammary gland.


And now I really truly am signing off/no-mail for my trip.  Bye all, I will
miss you.  I *did* get to talk to Marsha Walker on the phone this morning --
that was great.  We could have talked for hours and hours......

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