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Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.

10,000 Birds

Ratites, Tinamous, and Fowl. One of the other papers released last week identified chickens — of 21 species studied — as having the most similar genome “to the common avian ancestor, probably a bipedal feathered dinosaur” ( Romanov et al. Open Jarvis et al.’s Jarvis et al. Columbea: Doves to Flamingos. .

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 3 of 13

Animal Ethics

Most moral vegetarians list fish and fowl as animals one should not eat. Second, it might be argued that although it is wrong to kill microorganisms, it is not obvious that eating them kills them. Neither is it obvious, however, that eating microorganisms does not kill them. Killing a hog can be avoided.

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