Re: bauplan convergence

["Ken Kinman" <kinman@hotmail.com>]

     Actually after I sent that e-mail, it occurred to me that he was 
perhaps confusing Creodontia with Acreodi (the latter being another name for 
Mesonychids).
                    ------Ken
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> From: Ronald Orenstein <ornstn@home.com>
> Reply-To: ornstn@home.com
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: Re: bauplan convergence
> Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 21:02:33 -0400
>
> At 03:40 PM 17/06/2000 -0700, Ken Kinman wrote:
>
> > Ahmed,
> >     Creodonts evolved into whales??  Where did you get that?  That's
> > definitely news to me.
>
>
> I think he means mesonychids, a quite different group (though recently a
> link to artiodactyls has been proposed).  For a popular account of the
> mesonychid theory read the book "At the Water's Edge" by Carl Zimmer.
> --
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