Branchial arches or biomechanical flexion folds?

This is a nice well written opening post. My only reservations are that it is covering some of the ground already covered in the 'Why are Haeckel's drawings being taught in school?' thread, and that it is likely to have a limited audience consisting of some people interested in evo-devo, who will agree with you, and Randman, who won't.But all that aside I don't see any reason not to promote this.On a side note, do you need pharyngeal in there? I shouldn't think anyone who understands what a pharynx is could really object to pharyngeal, it only seems to be 'branchial' and 'gill' which cause the problems as in your cited references. Let me know if you don't see any need to change this, or when you have changed it, and I will promote the topic.TTFN,AW

Yaro,This is a thread with a very specific and focussed topic. It is always hard to maintain a clear topic in any case but with only 1 person arguing one of the positions, i.e. Randman, it is even more important that extraneous issues aren't brought in so he has to debate multiple topics simultaneously in the one thread.I think that evolution's impact on modern medicine is a very suitable topic for a thread, but not this thread. Perhaps you can compose an OP for a PNT on this topic.TTFN,AWThis message has been edited by AdminWounded, 17-Dec-2005 08:11 PM