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- From: ingles@engin.umich.edu (Ray Ingles)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Bad design and vestigial organs
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- Date: 23 Nov 92 19:49:37 GMT
- References: <YMF=z4-@engin.umich.edu> <1992Nov22.012646.24275@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Nov23.175036.21809@mail.cornell.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov23.175036.21809@mail.cornell.edu> Thomas Bjorkman <Thomas_Bjorkman@cornell.edu> writes:
- >In article <YMF=z4-@engin.umich.edu> Ray Ingles, ingles@engin.umich.edu
- >writes:
- >> Some non-flowering angiosperms, like the grasses, apparently
- >>have vestigial flower parts.
- >
- >Grasses are very much flowering plants, and they have the important parts
- >(the sex organs) fully developed. Many self- or wind pollinated plants
- >do not make petals or sepals (decorations) on their flowers. They all
- >have the primordia though, some just develop more than others.
-
- Actually, *I* didn't write what's credited to me above. Loren Petrich
- (lip@s1.gov) wrote it. The bit about vestigial plant features was a
- repost and labeled as such...
-
- Sincerely,
-
- Ray Ingles
- ingles@engin.umich.edu
-
- "The metric system has never really caught on in the U.S., unless you
- count the increasing popularity of the 9 mm bullet."
-