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[Doug Yanega]

Robin leech wrote:

>If there is an engineering problem, and there are 10 engineers,
>somehow, they come together to solve the problem the best way.  On
>the other hand, if there is a biological problem, and there are 10
>biologists, there will be 10 solutions, and no one is willing to
>give to another.

The difference is that your 10 engineers would be working for one
engineering firm, and on the same payroll, making $200,000 a year
each. The 10 biologists would be competing for one available $50,000
NSF grant to study the problem. It's how the work is funded that
makes biologists inherently competitive, not how they're trained or
how they think.

>;-)

Peace,
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Doug Yanega        Dept. of Entomology         Entomology Research Museum
Univ. of California - Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521
phone: (909) 787-4315 (standard disclaimer: opinions are mine, not UCR's)
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