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< Well, you see, it's such a transitional creature. It's a piss-poor            >
< reptile and not very much of a bird.                                          >
<         ― Melvin Konner, from "The Tangled Wing", quoting a zoologist who has >
<         studied the archeopteryx and found it "very much like people"         >
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