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Re: New paper: Theropod forelimb evolution & Archie is not a "Rosetta stone"
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Roger Close <roger.close@gmail.com> wrote:
> "Patristic" strikes me as a very poor term for something in
> evolutionary biology. All the top hits I can find on Google are either
> for this very paper, or for Christian/creationist sites.
Patristics is a long-established term for the study of the Church
Fathers (early but post-Biblical Christian writers). Using the word
for something in biology strikes me as simply perverse.
--
Andreas Johansson
Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?