New refs again

[psparks@CERF.NET (paul sparks)]

I also read a very interesting artical on the evolution of tetrapod limbs in
this months issue of Discovery (June 1995) on page 118 by Carl Zimmer who
claims that the legs on the tetrapods were formed before they came out of
the water under evolutionary pressure not related to land locomotion. He
goes out on a limb (with eight fingers- sorry coulnd't help it)




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>If you want to know how it all started there is a big and interesting
>paper out on the origin of tetrapods:
>
>Shubin, Neil. 1995. The evolution of paired fins and the origin of
>    tetrapod limbs.   Evolutionary Biology   28:39-86.
>
>Fun stuff from a sharp dude. The on-going discussions on the origin of
>the five digit plan and the like is great reading and a wonderful area
>of current research.

>
>Ralph Chapman, NMNH
>
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>
paul w. sparks  Psparks@cerfnet.com
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