Re: FEATHERED THEROPODS

[Jeff Poling <jpoling@dinosauria.com>]

At 03:28 PM 9/27/98 -0400, Joshua Smith wrote:
>were feathered, an outgroup (Sinosauropteryx)
>
>arbitrary outgroup which was SELECTED by the individual running the 
>analysis, not always or necessarilly by scientific methods.

   Uh, no.  Choosing _Sinosauropteryx_ is NOT arbitrary.  There are only two
(ignoring _Caudipteryx_ and _Protarchaeopteryx_) groups you can pick (birds
and _Sinosauropteryx_) if you are using phylogeny and parsimony to gain
insight into the possibility of integument in other related groups using
known data.

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