Re: Origin of body plans (phyla)
Arthur V. Chadwick (chadwicka@swau.edu)
Sun, 18 Oct 1998 18:16:56 -0700
At 08:53 PM 10/16/98 -0600, Keith wrote:
This is a point I have been trying to get heard when
>phyla are claimed to be the unbridgeable categories of life. New
>discoveries are occurring apace and the origins of several other phyla are
>close to being able to be reconstructed in manner similar to the
>arthropods.
But let us not forget that the arthropods proper are already there alive
and well, and perhaps amused at what future theories will be contrived to
explain their origin, while all this proposed evolution of the arthropod
body plan is taking place!
Art
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