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To: blam; mikrofon; Charles Henrickson
The discovery of a prehistoric jawbone, reported in February in the journal Science, suggests that the transformation of bones from the jaw into the small bones of the middle ear occurred at least twice in the evolutionary lines of living mammals after their split from a common ancestor some 200 million years ago.

I hadn't heard.

3 posted on 04/16/2005 3:37:54 PM PDT by martin_fierro (Been there, done that, got the refrigerator magnet)
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To: martin_fierro

Yeah, I was thinking I must have dozed off or something. Gosh my ears are ringing. Wonder what does that?


4 posted on 04/16/2005 3:40:58 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: martin_fierro; Charles Henrickson; blam

Sounds like a cochlea-and-bull story to me.


5 posted on 04/16/2005 4:12:53 PM PDT by mikrofon (The jawbone's connected to the .... head bone ...)
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To: martin_fierro

It'll give you something to chew on.


23 posted on 04/16/2005 9:07:50 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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