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Re: Dinosaur extinction

To: k.clements@auckland.ac.nz, jbois@umd5.umd.edu
Subject: Re: Dinosaur extinction
From: ELurio@aol.com
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 15:11:09 EST
Cc: dinosaur@usc.edu
Reply-to: ELurio@aol.com
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In a message dated 2/11/01 3:07:01 PM, k.clements@auckland.ac.nz writes:

<< David's views would 
seem to infer that in answering questions about animal evolution 
through time the results of molecular phylogenies on extant taxa have 
primacy over geological and palaeontological data.  >>

That it does, but stratigraphy trumps everything, inclucing cladistics and 
molecular phylogenies.

eric l.

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