Re: paleonet Origin of birds

[Dinogeorge@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 4/12/2005 9:19:46 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
jpenkethman@ispwest.com writes:

>>If anyone has time for this: How can you tell whether it was  the ancestor 
of
the flightless bird that could fly, or it will be the  descendants that would
become capable of flight. In other words, how can you  tell the direction of
evolution from a fossil?<<
 
You can't. You can't even tell from a cladogram. You have to reason from  
physical principles, and from known evolutionary trends in modern  organisms.