Re: Michael Clark, would you like to make a retraction?

"Claudius Denk" <claudiusd...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I don't make statements I can't support.

Subject: Re: lions & savannah Date: 28 Nov 2006
Jim McGinn: "Both tigers and lions evolved from Sabertoothed cats."

Fact:
"The analysis shows that the sabertooth cats were a sister group to
the modern cats--that is, they diverged early on from the ancestors
of
modern cats and are not closely related to any living felid
species."
Barnett et al.
Evolution of the extinct Sabretooths and the American
cheetah-like cat
Current Biology, Vol. 15, August 9, 2005.


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