Re: Northen Illinois University Shootings

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> David Mindell, who I actually did an internship with, just released a 
> paper pertaining to the origination of avian lineages being in the 
> cretaceous. Do you think this supports the secondary flightless issue? The 
> Birds are Dinosaurs theory? Or neither?

It cannot do any such thing, because the question of when the paleognaths 
and the neognaths parted ways ( = when Neornithes originated) is simply not 
related to the question of when, let alone how, Aves or flight originated.

Besides, all internal calibration points in that study have only a minimum 
age and no maximum age. I think that explains something. 
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content?content=10.1080/10635150701397635 
:-Â <innocent whistling>