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From: sabol@Apple.COM (Bryan Sabol)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,talk.origins
Subject: Re: The birds and the beaks
Keywords: evolution, birds, beaks
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Date: 10 Apr 89 17:34:01 GMT
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In article <16816@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>In article <3566@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu> jwm@aplvax.jhuapl.edu.UUCP (Jim Meritt)
>Actually, the question should then be `how might group G have acquired
>property P, and why might G-with-P be all that have survived to this
>day'---in this case, how did proto-birds acquire beaks (what sort of
>progression from teeth to beaks seems likely) and why did the beakless,
>toothy proto-birds disappear?

	Quite. (!)  Wish I'd been able to say that.  :-b

bryan sabol
ousted reedie-at-large.