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Re: smallest ANCIENT non-bird dinosaur - was what I was asking

Hi Mike

What difference does "stem-" make? Especially when communicating the reality of evolution to the sceptical public, for example.

Adam

T. Michael Keesey wrote:


When people are told that *Eohippus* and even *Propalaeotherium* (the Messel horselet) are horses,
while *Thoatherium* is not one, most of them eat it up.



Stem-horses, not horses!



When people are told that *Ambulocetus* and *Pakicetus* are whales, walking whales, most of them
accept it as a revealed fact



Stem-whales, not whales!