Fri, Apr-25-08, 17:10
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Originally Posted by Marillia
Apparently they're more closely related to rabbits,
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Rabbits are rodents.
From your article:
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Not surprisingly for a report with such radical ramifications, other scientists attacked it as uncredible, naive and full of holes.
"It's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of," said Dr. Rodney Honeycutt, who studies the molecular evolution of rodents and other mammals at Texas A&M University. "There's a huge amount of data showing that rodents are unequivocally monophyletic."
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