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From: gsh7w@astsun1.acc.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy)
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Subject: Re: The birds and the beaks
Keywords: evolution, birds, beaks
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Date: 7 Apr 89 15:00:18 GMT
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In article <9229@dasys1.UUCP> aj-mberg@dasys1.UUCP (Micha Berger) writes:
#	If turtles DO have a beak, this bring up a sore point in Evolutionary
#theory -convergences. Anyone want to build up odds that to phyla solved
#a problem exactly the same way? Ever look into an octapus eye lately?
#

Why is it a sore point? Two different species finding the same type of
device (an eye) was useful does not seem like a sore point to me. Why
do you find sore about it. I won't even mention the point that the eye
of an octapus is better than ours.

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