Re: Archaeopteryx

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

Dinogeorge@aol.com wrote:

> I can't tell you how dissatisfied I am with the current crop of 
> theropod-avian cladograms. Everything's circular or tautological, nothing 
> can be or has been checked in independent ways.

I for one am very eager to see the cladogram that you have in mind.  BCF is 
an interesting theory of avian evolution, but I have yet to see it 
represented as an explicit or testable hypothesis.  Let's see where the BCF 
cladogram puts birds relative to dromaeosaurs, ceratosaurs, herrerasaurs, 
sauropodomorphs etc, then we'll talk.

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