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What drove bird evolution?

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Dr Jack
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07-15-2004 9:04 AM 		Reply to: Message 52 by redwolf
07-15-2004 2:59 AM

Did you forget we are the same people you argued this with before? That in this thread you attempted to defend the idea and failed (miserably)? Did you think we would forget?
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In any case the whole gravity 'idea' is off-topic here, so perhaps you'd care to take it to the above thread and return to the topic at hand here?
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07-15-2004 12:00 PM 		Reply to: Message 59 by redwolf
07-15-2004 11:50 AM

Take it to the other thread.
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07-19-2004 5:48 AM 		Reply to: Message 122 by arachnophilia
07-18-2004 2:10 AM

as i believe someone pointed out, there is no such dinosaur. the brontosaurus was an apatasaurus who's head somehow got changed with that of a camarasaurus.
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An incidental point of fact, but: this is actually a mashing of the truth. There was a reconstruction of an Apatosaur with the wrong head, however that is not what the difference between a Brontosaurus and an Apatosaurus. The actual difference is: nothing. They're different names for the same dinosaur - the international committee that decides these things chose Apatosaurus as the official name.
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(See Stephen J. Gould's Bully for Brontosaurus for further details)
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11-11-2004 7:26 AM 		Reply to: Message 141 by interrobanging
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Re: still a bit off.
That the committee chose to pick Apatosaurus as the official name does not stop Brontosaurus being another name for the exact same dinosaur.
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