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Well,....I admit I`m
not nearly as expert as Mr. Kammerer appears to be on early synapsid-diapsid
relationships, and that I`m operating mostly on "hunch" in trying to
draw an enviornmental picture, and extrapolate a possible evolutionary pathway
for diapsids in light of current knowledge of evolutionary processes. I`ve been
"out of the loop" for some time. When getting my Master`s, cladistics
was just getting started, and was still considered as somewhat controversial.
I`ve spent the winter refining my views,but only had Carroll`s and Romer`s texts
as reference. I`ll drop the "debate" for now,
but feel that some type of test of a
possible "one-time" development of endothermy should be performed
against a recognized phylogeny. Can anyone suggest how I may go about this? Is
there a formula I can use? (P.S. I`m new to computers as well,...is there a
program that I can run to test my ideas
cladistically?).
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