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Michael Sternberg wrote: >Another plausible reason for the development of deciduous feathers would be >to remove nitrogenous waste. Store that nitrogen in something that falls >out once or twice a year. That sounds quite interesting and it could help to explain this evolutionary process without hanging to strictly on darwinistic concepts. Has anybody more ideas about it?? Thanks a lot Manfred Manfred Krautter Institut fuer Geologie und Palaeontologie der Universitaet Stuttgart Herdweg 51 D- 70174 Stuttgart, Germany e-mail: manfred.krautter@po.uni-stuttgart.de Phone: ++49-711-1211344 Fax: ++49-711-1211341 Visit our Institute on the Web! Institute: http://www.geologie.uni-stuttgart.de Reef Group Stuttgart: http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/UNIuser/igps/reefgroup German activities for the International Year of the Reef 1997: http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/UNIuser/igps/IYOR
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