Re: Sort Your Story Out! (Was: 2 refs that were once new...)

[Nick Longrich <longrich@alumni.princeton.edu>]

Perhaps someone could answer this:
	How exactly did they (or would anyone) measure the vane 
asymmetry in the Berlin Specimen? The impression I had of the 
specimen is that all of the feathers are overlapping and so its 
difficult, if not downright impossible, to get a good idea of the 
width of the posterior vane. Until I see this specificially 
addressed, I'm very skeptical of conclusions that the feathers were 
symmetrical.


> I forgot to quote a few important sentences:
>
> "Only three specimens of *A. lithographica* have the feathers sufficiently
> preserved to measure vane asymmetry: the Berlin and London specimens and the
> single feather. The single feather has an asymmetry of 2.2 [...], but where
> this feather comes from in the wing, and indeed whether it is from the same
> species, is unknown^6."