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eppur_se_muova

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12. Aha! I did note the crocodiles, and thought that made it doubly odd, but if it's only living genera

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #11)

Sun Aug 9, 2020, 11:56 AM

Aug 2020

then all's well, I suppose.

I had to think about that a bit -- fossil genera are so important to any discussion of evolution -- why leave them out ? Why, lack of DNA, of course, and this is a DNA study, after all. Clarity has been achieved.

Thanks for pointing that out.

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