Jules Poirier lectures in British Columbia

Tracy P. Hamilton chem013 at uabdpo.dpo.uab.edu
Mon Sep 18 14:22:30 EDT 2000


"mel turner" <mturner at snipthis.acpub.duke.edu> wrote in message
news:8q1c7r$am7$1 at news.duke.edu...
> In article
<amg39.REMOVETHIS-62773D.21591816092000 at newsstand.cit.cornell.edu>,
> amg39.REMOVETHIS at cornell.edu.invalid wrote...
> >In article <8q17he$45q$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>, jarofclay at my-deja.com wrote:

[snip]

> >> From what creatures did butterflies evolve?
> >
> >I don't know.
>
> From common ancestors with the rest of the Lepidoptera
>
> [i.e., "moths", not a monophyletic group; butterflies (Papilionoidea)
> are just one twig, the rest of the bush are all "moths"].

Whew!  For a minute I thought you were going to say the
moths were on trunks, a blatant falsehood! :)

[snip]

Tracy P. Hamilton



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