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eppur_se_muova

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1. I've almost finished reading Prothero's "Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals" ....

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Fri Sep 29, 2023, 09:50 AM

Sep 2023

and have been just absolutely amazed at how much has been discovered recently, and how much reinterpretation has been forced by new fossil finds as well as genetic analysis. Modern cladistics has completely revised our views on the interrelatedness of various genera. I remember memorizing the old kingdom-phylum-class-order-family-genus-species heirarchy back in grade school, and it seems almost useless now.

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I've almost finished reading Prothero's "Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals" .... eppur_se_muova Sep 2023 #1

Looks like a good book, thanks for the reference. nt sl8 Sep 2023 #2