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Re: cladistics

In a message dated 95-09-07 18:32:16 EDT, bcunning@nssi.com (Cunningham,
Betty) writes:

> As do most primates.  WE'RE omnivorous, however........
>     AND the primates evolved flight.(their primitive shared ancestors with 
>     bats, at least)

Right. The evolution of arboreal climbing, bipedality, gliding, and
ultimately flight in the primate-bat clade strikingly parallels the evolution
of these same traits in Archosauria.

G.O.