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From: ab3n+@andrew.cmu.edu (Alexander Bernard Brands)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Vertebrate growth & evolution
Message-ID: <MZO6H0u00Ws9A6TERS@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 20 Nov 89 20:55:28 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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>If true, would this hypothesis support the contention that
>birds (and therefore dinosaurs) are more closely related to
>the mammals than to the reptiles?

        I'm not sure that I follow your reasoning.  Are you saying that
Dinosaurs 
stopped growing when they reached maturity?  I've never heard that before, but 

if there is evidence to support that, I would like to hear about it.

      -Alex