Posted by: DWA
04/30/2008, 00:16:06
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I offer this, while we wait for the latest issue of Science, to try to determine if anyone besides an AP reporter was suggesting a directional linkage between t. rex and chickens. Scanning the article, I find no assumptions of directio-anality, that is, which life "type" had the genetic code first, chickens, or giant Black Hills toothed wingless meat eating dinosaurs. In brief: If it sounds too good to be true, maybe someone is walking on thin ice.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/319/5859/33d
Science 4 January 2008:
Vol. 319. no. 5859, p. 33
DOI: 10.1126/science.1147364
Technical Comments Response to Comment on "Protein Sequences from Mastodon and Tyrannosaurus rex Revealed by Mass Spectrometry"John M. Asara1,2* and Mary H. Schweitzer3,4
"We sequenced six endogenous collagen peptides from Tyrannosaurus rex bone fragments using mass spectrometry. Five sequences match birds, but only two match amphibians, supporting dinosaur-bird relationships. Buckley et al. reinterpret and misinterpret our data and question sequence authenticity, but they used a suboptimal phylogenetic algorithm to analyze only a subset of reported sequences and they suggest analyses that are less sensitive and less specific than mass spectrometry. We disagree and use data to explain."
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29542
Pigs win constitutional protection
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