it's cool that evolutionary biology is still such a WIP hee! i love that you said, 'WIP.' we must make it a universal acronym!

really, you get squicked by thinking about plagues? oh man, i guess there's no way we're going to get into the 'spanish' flu of 1918? ;) you know what squicks me? patterns in nature. yeah, like fractally things... the insides of pomgranates? eesh!