Re: New alvarezsaurid

["Jonathan R. Wagner" <znc14@TTACS.TTU.EDU>]

At 02:23 PM 3/30/98 -0500, you wrote:
>I wouldn't mind an intuitively pleasing adaptive story-->any< adaptive
>story--that didn't include miracles, unlike the stories currently in vogue,
>some of which are supposedly supported by phylogenetic analysis.
        If you look at it that way, all stories require miracles (including,
most especially, BCF). Cladistics is based on the idea that the story which
assumes the least number of miracles is closest to the truth.
        :)
        Wagner
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