Re: Pigment Or Bacteria? The Idea Of 'Color' In Fossil Feathers Gets A Rethink

[Caitlin Syme <caitlin.syme@uqconnect.edu.au>]

While I appreciate your critique of the paper, the follow-up comment was
sexist and not appropriate.


On 7/03/2014 1:58 pm, "Ruben" <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> wrote:

>On 03/06/2014 10:49 PM, Ruben wrote:
>> On 03/06/2014 08:43 AM, Paul H. wrote:
>>> Pigment Or Bacteria? The Idea Of 'Color' In Fossil
>>> Feathers Gets A Rethink, Science 2.0, March 6, 2014
>>> 
>>>http://www.science20.com/news_articles/pigment_or_bacteria_idea_color_fo
>>>ssil_feathers_gets_rethink-131025
>>>
>>>
>>> Pigment or Bacteria? Researchers Re-examine the
>>> Idea of ?Color¹ in Fossil Feathers by Tracey Peake
>>> North Carolina State University News Services
>>> http://news.ncsu.edu/releases/tp-feathercolor/
>>>
>>> The paper is:
>>>
>>> Moyer, A. E., W. Zheng,    E. A. Johnson, M. C.
>>> Lamanna, D.-q. Li, K. J. Lacovara, and M. H.
>>> Schweitzer, 2014, Melanosomes or Microbes:
>>> Testing an Alternative Hypothesis for the Origin
>>> Scientific Reports. no. 4, Article no. 4233
>>> doi:10.1038/srep04233
>>> http://www.nature.com/srep/2014/140228/srep04233/full/srep04233.html
>>>
>>> Yours,
>>>
>>> Paul H.
>>>
>>>
>> not good science.  This paper is based on an experiment with chicken
>> feathers to show that such microscopic structures can be made by
>> growing bacteria on chicken feathers.  So what.  Now bury it in a wet
>> anaerobic sediment  for a 100 million years and see then see if you
>> get these structures as well as that they form such elegant patterns
>> over the body of the animal, emulating a very naturalistic design and
>> rational topography along the flight feathers and such...
>>
>> The approach, IMO, just doesn't fly.
>>
>>
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>She is cute though and will one day do a great job on a discovery
>channel docudrama.
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