Re: Quote Mine Project - Part II

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 16:49:12 +0000 (UTC), John Harshman
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>Sorry, I have long since forgotten the original purpose of all this. And 
>an annoying file disaster has caused the thread context to disappear 
>from my computer. 

My condolences.

>But I would just change the paragraph at the top to 
>say this:
>
>"It's now obvious that Gould and Eldredge weren't arguing against 
>_Archaeopteryx_ being a transitional form, but arguing that it wasn't an 
>example of a perfectly smooth change between body plans. They state that 
>it's a mosaic, a mixture of both primitive and advanced features. But 
>did Gould believe that _Archaeopteryx_ was a transitional form? He did 
>indeed, as can be seen in his article "The Tell-tale Wishbone" (Gould 
>1980)." You might add to that, if clarification were needed, "Mosaic 
>forms are exactly what we should expect from evolutionary transitions, 
>since there's no reason to expect every part of the body to evolve at 
>the same rate or at the same time."

geb2rev has (as far as I can see) incorporated those points with his here:

<http://tinyurl.com/n40u>

Unless you object, I'll go with that, with dual authorship, of course.

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J. Pieret
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