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Re: Greg Paul is right (again); or "Archie's not a birdy"... but Jeholornis is (not!))

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Subject: Re: Greg Paul is right (again); or "Archie's not a birdy"... but Jeholornis is (not!))
From: David Černý <david.cerny1@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 23:56:03 +0200
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GSPaul <GSP1954@aol.com> wrote:

> Cladistic analysis did not
> settle the issue for many years. Then more and more transitional fossils
> showed up, combined with molecular studies [...]

...which were cladistic as well. Is it only morphological cladistics
that bothers you?

> it's really the fossils that count.

No doubt about that -- the question is how to extract phylogenetic
information from them.

-- 
David Černý

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