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From: jay@banzai.UUCP (Jay Schuster)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: The birds and the beaks
Keywords: evolution, birds, beaks
Message-ID: <1133@banzai.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 89 16:13:59 GMT
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In article <9229@dasys1.UUCP> aj-mberg@dasys1.UUCP (Micha Berger) writes:
>> 	As a side note I seem to recall a short, fat, shelled four-legged
>> snake with a beak. (Okay, okay, I know turtles aren't even close to being
>> snakes. Call it post-tistic licence.)
>	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?

Actually, from a molecular evolution course I took many years ago, in the
segment on using DNA sequencing to determine evolutionary relations, I
recall that birds were more closely related to turtles than to any other
family/class/order of reptiles.

Interesting, no?

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