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RE: Direct determination of parrot evolution



On Wed, 21 May 2008, Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. wrote:
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.

there's a special place in hell for this sort of thing, you know...