From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: Led4acs@aol.com   
   Subject: Re: Star Trek: Am I the Only One?   
      
   On Dec 24, 6:15apm, "Karl Johanson"  wrote:   
   > "Led4Aces"  wrote in message   
   >   
   >What does the common ancestor of humans and apes look like? It   
   >is going to look ape-like.   
   >   
   > It looked ape like and human like, compared to most life on Earth.   
   That wasn't the question. If you compare humans and apes to snails I   
   suppose you might be right. But at the point where apes and human went   
   separate ways, what would become human still looked more like an ape.   
   >   
   > Humans are in the same family (and thus the same kingdom, phylum, class and   
   > order) as chimpanzees, gorillas, orang-utans. We look like apes and apes   
   > look like us.   
   Speak for yourself. (This is a joke in case you are humorless)   
    ago, and it looked a lot like humans   
   I said it looked more ape-like then human like. Which is still true.   
   , chimps, gorillas and orang-utans, as   
   > it wasn't that long ago (compared to the common ancestor of humans and   
   > spiders), and it was in the same kingdom, phylum, class and order.   
   >   
   > >What would the common ancestor of spiders   
   > >and humans look like? It's going to look a hell of a lot like an   
   > >arachnid,   
   >   
   > Wrong.   
   Yes it looks more like a worm. Mea Culpa.   
   > >Barclay didn't devolve into a spider (I'm assuming that's what   
   > >happened, haven't seen the episode in years) he devolved into an   
   > >ancestor of humans and spiders....   
   >   
   > Wrong.   
   >   
   > According to the script he, "...transformed into a horrible cross between   
   > human and SPIDER (emphasis original)."   
   Well I gave the episode too much credit.   
   >   
   > Data further classifies the transformation as into a Pisauridae with the   
   > lines, "I recognized the chitin colorations. He is becoming a member of the   
   > Pisauridae family." Pisauridae (which includes numerous species) is a family   
   > of modern spiders not an ancestor of spiders' order Araneae (of the class   
   > arachnida).   
   >   
   > >which was going to look a lot like a spider. Pretty simple.   
   >   
   > But wrong.   
   Yeah I was only off by 400 million years.   
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