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Re: Are birds really smarter than non-avian dinosaurs?

To: DML <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Subject: Re: Are birds really smarter than non-avian dinosaurs?
From: John Wilkins <john@wilkins.id.au>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 10:59:34 +1000
Cc: David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>
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He wrote it in the margins of the Vestiges (1844), I believe, and then continued to say just that for the rest of his professional life.

On 27/05/2008, at 7:23 AM, David Marjanovic wrote:

Could you provide a citation for that please, David?
Could be a bit difficult. I think it's something he scribbled into a book margin long before he published the Origin.

But anyway, I got that from Gould's book Full House (which I don't have here, so I can't check it out).

-- John S. Wilkins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Philosophy University of Queensland - Blog: scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts ... now you're really in the total animal soup of time - Ginsburg, "Howl"

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