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Re: Recommendation: Buy British version of Dawkin's The Ancestor's Tale

To: tholtz@geol.umd.edu
Subject: Re: Recommendation: Buy British version of Dawkin's The Ancestor's Tale
From: Mike Taylor <mike@indexdata.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 23:01:57 +0000
Cc: dinosaur@usc.edu
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> Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 17:44:48 -0500
> From: "Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geol.umd.edu>
>
> Richard Dawkin's book _The Ancestor's Tale_ [...]  introduces the
> term "concestor" (a neologism for "most recent common ancestor").

Yuck.  I prefer MRCA, which has the benefit that you can pronounce it
"marker".

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- Recommendation: Buy British version of Dawkin's The Ancestor's Tale
  - From: "Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geol.umd.edu>

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