Re: Dinosaur Genera List update #196

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

David Marjanovic (david.marjanovic@gmx.at) wrote:

<In any case it frequently happens in whales, partially, where a slit
between the two sterna appears.>

  But whales have, as in all mammals, median elements that were originally
not paired, and a slit would be secondary to the nature as a single
element, not a reversal to an original condition of paired xiphisternal
bones. Do you have a citation for the above?

  Cheers,

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Jaime A. Headden

  Little steps are often the hardest to take.  We are too used to making leaps 
in the face of adversity, that a simple skip is so hard to do.  We should all 
learn to walk soft, walk small, see the world around us rather than zoom by it.

"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)

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