Re: Bipedalism and theorizing... was Re: Morgan and creationists
HARRY R. ERWIN (herwin@mason2.gmu.edu)
23 Jul 1996 19:27:35 GMT
Gerrit Hanenburg (ghanenbu@inter.nl.net) wrote:
: herwin@mason2.gmu.edu (HARRY R. ERWIN) wrote:
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: >Actually, there's some question whether the plesiadapiforms or the bats
: >are more closely related to euprimates.
: What about Scandentia?
It's starting to look to me like Scandentia is more of a generalized
arboreal insectivorous group that resembles the Primates only in sharing
some primitive features. The petrosal tympanic bulla doesn't seem to be
enough to join them more tightly than that. I expect that someone will
find that the petrosal bulla evolved several times during the K-T
transition.
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Harry Erwin, Internet: herwin@gmu.edu, Web Page: http://osf1.gmu.edu/~herwin
49 year old PhD student in computational neuroscience ("how bats do it" 8)
and lecturer for CS 211 (data structures and advanced C++)
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