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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: archeopteryx: THE PILTDOWN CHICKEN
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Date: Wed, 9-Oct-85 10:38:35 EDT
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In article <420@imsvax.UUCP> ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden) writes:
> But now a group of modern investigators, including the very eminent
> cosmologist Sir Fred Hoyle, have denounced Archeopteryx as a fraud,
> presumably committed by the late Dr. Haberlein.

I'd like to see a published account by Hoyle and the others.  And then the
rebuttals.  Anybody have any references?

Archaeopteryx would be a strong contender for an intermediate on skeletal
features alone, without the feathers.  And there are several other families
of fossil birds known with teeth and other ancestral characteristics.
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Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh