CHRIS' BOOK etc.

[darren.naish@port.ac.uk]

On the bauplan thread, it might be relevant (might not) that birds might 
have already evolved a faculatatively quadrupedal form, the bizarre 
Caribbean ibis _Xenicibis_. Have mentioned this many times before. 
Not my idea - it's Storrs Olson's.

Let me just say that Chris' book, _Why Elephants Have Big Ears_, is 
now out. Looks excellent (but I noted one possible small problem 
when skim reading - Australian ziphodont crocs are referred to as 
pristichampsines - - the Aussie ziphodonts are in fact mekosuchins, a 
different radiation of crocodylids). 


DARREN NAISH 
PALAEOBIOLOGY RESEARCH GROUP
School of Earth, Environmental & Physical Sciences
UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH
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