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Dinosaurs and birds

To: Andrew Taylor <>
Subject: Dinosaurs and birds
From: Mark Kliene <>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 15:21:09 +1000
Ahhh, the frailities of the evolution theory...
Mark Kliene.

Andrew Taylor wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, John Penhallurick wrote:
> > R eKim Sterelny's post.  I think that the sequencing of certain genes in
> > nuclear DNA has indicated that birds are not descended directly from
> > dinosaurs but rather that birds and dinosaurs share a common ancestor.
> > John Penhallurick
>
> Wouldn't this require dinosaur DNA?
>
> There were was a 1994 paper in Science where they thought they had
> extracted DNA from 80 million year old bone fragments.  Subsequent
> work suggested they'd probably had fragments of human DNA which had
> contaminated the bone fragments.  Maybe there is something recent
> I've missed?
>
> Slightly off-topic, there are recent news stories about a Qld dinosaur
> find:
> http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,3024143%255E421,00.html
>
> Andrew
>
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