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From: chl@cs.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Re: On classification
Message-ID: <chl.671877660@m1>
Date: 17 Apr 91 08:41:00 GMT
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In <1135@tetrauk.UUCP> rick@tetrauk.UUCP (Rick Jones) writes:

>|Ergo, mammals are dinosaurs also, and hence so are we.

>I'm not a zoologist, but I always understood that the mammals were an entirely
>separate species which evolved during the dinosaur era, and only flourished
>after the dinosaurs' decline.

Yes, but the first mammal had to evolve from something, and that something
was a dinosaur.