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re: paper on drepanosaurids + woven bone ps



Quoting david peters <davidrpeters@earthlink.net>:

> At first glance the other problem with this phylogeny would be too few taxa.
> Humans can be lumped with rats if you don't include any other mammals in an
> analysis.

Not such a terrible thing.  Primates and Rodentia are among each other's closest
relatives within Mammalia.

Nick Pharris
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Linguistics
University of Michigan