RE: Direct determination of parrot evolution

[don ohmes <d_ohmes@yahoo.com>]

I've spoken to several parrots on this very issue, and their attitude can be 
paraphrased as -- "Well, we are sure we aren't descended from monkeys; beyond 
that, who cares?".

Which the crows think is funny as hell, of course.

Don

--- On Wed, 5/21/08, Mike Taylor <mike@indexdata.com> wrote:

> From: Mike Taylor <mike@indexdata.com>
> Subject: RE: Direct determination of parrot evolution
> To: tholtz@umd.edu
> Cc: danchure@easilink.com, "'DML'" <dinosaur@usc.edu>
> Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2008, 9:38 AM
> Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. writes:
>  > > From: owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu
> [mailto:owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu] 
>  > > On Behalf Of Dan Chure
>  > >
>  > > After reading the story at the following
> site.....
>  > > 
>  > >
> http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/21/lost.parrot.ap/index.html
>  > > 
>  > > ..... I was wondering, has if anyone has simply
> asked the 
>  > > parrots about their evolutionary history and
> phylogeny?
>  > 
>  > The problem is that parrots assuming their origin was
> a case of Polly-phyly.
> 
> You are a very bad man.
> 
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