RE: Birds, Fish, and the Class Ceratopsia (was RE: Response to Gould?)]

["Tim Williams" <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

Ken Kinman wrote:

> If you can convince any major university to
> establish a Department of Ceratopsia which is equivalent to their 
> Department
> of Ornithology, then I will consider Ceratopsia as a separate class.

The corollary of that argument is that we should disband every Department of 
Parasitology.  The subjects of that discipline are drawn from a vast array 
of different eukaryote groups, united not by common descent but by 
lifestyle.

>     By the way, does anyone know if any universities have yet combined
> their bird and reptile specimens into one big collection?

Quite a few, although they have put mammals, amphibians and fishes in with 
them, along with assorted invertebrates, and called it the "Department of 
Zoology".


;-)


Tim



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Dr Timothy J. Williams

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