Next step: Jurassic Park, or not really.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
Just without the bretzels.
I think lunch at KFTRex is in order.
When you make things that vague, you might as well say everythings linked to something.
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Skawing:
"Distant Cousin?"When you make things that vague, you might as well say everythings linked to something.
That's pretty much the case, however what they're saying is far more specific.
The T-Rex is the "distant cousin" of the chicken in the manner that primordial apes are the "distant cousins" of humans. The two species lie on the same evolutionary tree.
Skaw fucked around with this message on 04-14-2007 at 11:03 PM.
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Over the mountain, in between the ups and downs, I ran into Skaw who doth quote:
Wouldn't that be more of a distant grandfather/son? The primordial apes deal that is. I'd say right now, Humans and current Apes are distant cousins, stemming from the same predecessor at some point in time.
If the article hadn't mentioned direct descendency elsewhere I would be inclined to agree, but in this case I'm pretty sure it's just poor word choice.
Their research has shown that the small genome size has nothing much to do with flight, as it was a characteristic that had evolved in the ancestoral dinosaurs--just like feathers, strange avian pulmonary plumbing, and certain patterns of nesting behaviour.
As for the relation of Tyrannosaurus rex to the chicken, it's a somewhat more distant phylogenetic relationship than, but roughly equivalent to that between the duck-billed platypus and Homo sapiens.
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Nobody really understood why Bajah wrote:
I think lunch at KFTRex is in order.
So, how much for one drumstick? (I'll bet it'll cost more than a 20 piece bucket!!!)
