Re: Greg Paul is right (again); or "Archie's not a birdy"

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Subject: Re: Greg Paul is right (again); or "Archie's not a birdy"
From: David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 21:52:37 +0200
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 Absolutely amazing fossil. We are so lucky we lived to see it.


Oh yes.

 I guess Xu excluded crown group birds in his cladogram. The experts
 here probably know why.


They're simply unnecessary. :-)

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- Greg Paul is right (again); or "Archie's not a birdy"
  - From: "Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@umd.edu>
- Re: Greg Paul is right (again); or "Archie's not a birdy"
  - From: Jason Brougham <jaseb@amnh.org>