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From: drdan@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Dan Johnson)
Subject: Re: On classification
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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 91 20:28:00 GMT

In article <chl.671706575@m1> chl@cs.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey) writes:
>In <527@eiffel.UUCP> bertrand@eiffel.UUCP (Bertrand Meyer) writes:
>
>>Here are some extracts from an article entitled ``Dinosaur Dilemmas''
>
>>Consistent with this view, the editors include the birds among the
>>dinosaurs, as they must on cladistic grouds, because the birds are
>>thought to be descended from a particular group of small carnivorous
>>dinosaurs.
>
>Ergo, mammals are dinosaurs also, and hence so are we.

Nope, mammals are evolved from therapsids, which evolved 
(along with dinosaurs) from reptiles. (It's amazing what you
learn because of a 5-year-old with an insatiable curiosity about
dinosaurs.)

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