Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Do we need to know the different birds?

Q: Question about the final. Do we have to know the different types of birds in the cladogram and their differences or do we simply need to know that the cladogram (like the saurichian cladogram on the website) ends with aves?

A: Yes, you do need to know the three non-living birds and their evolutionary novelties as presented in lecture... confuciusornis (pygostyle), Hesperonis (carpometacarpus), and the strange mononykus (carpometacarpus but not a pygostyle)

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