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  1. Newsgroups: talk.origins
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!news
  3. From: Thomas Bjorkman <Thomas_Bjorkman@cornell.edu>
  4. Subject: Re: Bad design and vestigial organs
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov23.175036.21809@mail.cornell.edu>
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  12. References: <YMF=z4-@engin.umich.edu> <1992Nov22.012646.24275@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
  13. Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:50:36 GMT
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  16. In article <YMF=z4-@engin.umich.edu> Ray Ingles, ingles@engin.umich.edu
  17. writes:
  18. >    Some non-flowering angiosperms, like the grasses, apparently
  19. >have vestigial flower parts.
  20.  
  21. Grasses are very much flowering plants, and they have the important parts
  22. (the sex organs) fully developed.  Many self- or wind pollinated plants
  23. do not make petals or sepals (decorations) on their flowers.  They all
  24. have the primordia though, some just develop more than others.
  25.