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1. The headline is wrong. The Israeli researchers didn't prove anything. They made a coherent argument based on a morphological analysis. That argument may or may not be accepted by the scientific community, depending on what other research may indicate.

2. Even if true, this isn't all that surprising. While we're all familiar with the simple linear evolutionary projections we see in elementary school textbooks, the fossil record is much more complex, filled with branches, dead ends, hybridization and other weird stuff. It's often hard to figure out the exact evolutionary path from a series of specimens.

4 posted on 04/16/2007 9:08:11 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)

I like your tag line, and how true that really is, we only think that gravity is the real ldeal, but at sometime in the future someone may show that it really doesn’t even exist but what attracts bodies is something different.

11 posted on 04/16/2007 5:19:57 PM PDT by stockpirate (A nation that doesn't honor it warriors will be defeated by a nation that does. (read my profile))