Re: GIRAFFE NECKS AGAIN

["Matthew Bonnan" <mbonnan@hotmail.com>]

Darren Naish said:

> Recent work by Nick Solounias shows that T1 of _Giraffa_ is actually
> a thoracicised (??) C7 and that, somewhere along the way, an extra
> cervical has been neomorphed into the series. This seems fairly
> sensible given the location of the brachial plexus and characters of the
> vertebrae.. it is not a new idea and was proposed in the 1800s. The new
> work was published in _J. Zoology_ last year (I think) - Tom Holtz
> discussed it here on DML - but Solounias had earlier presented it at an
> SVP meeting (96 or 97). Funnily enough, when I asked Kent Stevens
> about giraffe cervicals he said "They have eight": at the time, he was
> totally unaware of Solounias' work.

I was aware of Solounias' work because I saw his talk at SVP in Chicago, 
1997.  However, I didn't know what had happened after, so thanks for the 
update.  Has anyone challenged his findings?

Matt Bonnan
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