[NYT] Study Re-evaluates Evolution of Mammals
- From: maximum maypo <max.maypo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 23:53:40 GMT
<QUOTE http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/science/28cnd-mammal.html>
The mass extinction that wiped out dinosaurs and other life 65
million years ago apparently did not, contrary to conventional
wisdom, immediately clear the way for the rise of today?s mammals.
In fact, the ancestral branches of most mammals, including primates,
rodents and hoofed animals, emerged long before the global extinction
and survived it more or less intact. But it was not until at least 10
million to 15 million years afterward that the lineages of living
mammals began to flourish in number and diversity.
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