Re: Cassowary calls may be lowest bird calls

["Greg Winterflood" <>]

--- In  Dan Dugan <> wrote:
> Had to look that one up:
> 
> Plesiomorphic:        in cladistics, this term describes primitive 
> or generalized characteristics that arose early in the 
evolutionary 
> history of a taxonomic group. These will be very widespread and 
will 
> therefore not help in dividing the group into lower-level taxa.
> 
> -Dan Dugan

So then I had to look up 'cladistics'! "A method of classification 
of animals and plants into groups based on characteristics which 
originated in a common evolutionary ancestor." (Concise Oxford 10th 
ed)

By the way the cassowary is also found in the Cape York Peninsula in 
far north Queensland, Australia, across the Torres Strait from Papua 
New Guinea.

Greg



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