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Re: Dinosaurs Phylogenetic Tree for Matlab.
Dora Smith writes:
> > Yes, "-genetic" just means that some sort of "genesis" (origin) is
> > involved; that's the common origin of all those words.
>
> My bad. Just because not only does the word contain the word
> "genetics", but all phylogenetic studies of both birds and humans
> are actual studies of genetic relationships, I should think that
> phylogenetic studies of dinosaurs would be studies of dinosaur
> genetics.
>
> But maybe I'm the only one of the three of us who could have read
> phylogenetic studies of birds and humans.
Uh, yes. Because the problem is _everyone else's_ ignorance.
Of course.
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