Of course you could say that rabbits are rats.
You could also say that rats are rabbits.
But the best guess is that rabbits and rats and people diverged from common Mammalian stock at slightly different times during the Mesozoic.

Rabbits and rodents are both our cousins, but we play favorites because we are bigots.

Last edited by themilum; 02/17/2006 9:03 PM.