MrRING
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I was listening to Alie Ward's excellent Ologies podcast where she talked to bat expert (chiropterologst) Dr. Merlin Tuttle:
https://www.alieward.com/ologies/chiropterology
As part of this show, he dropped the interesting genetic bon mot that it hasn't been completely accepted by all biological scientists, but that it appears that bats will eventually be reclassified as primates, due to the way the brain functions.
And it got me to thinking: wouldn't it be interesting if what we think of as the main primate branches were actually decended from bats as the common ancestor, and does that account for the dreams of flying that we experience?
https://www.alieward.com/ologies/chiropterology
As part of this show, he dropped the interesting genetic bon mot that it hasn't been completely accepted by all biological scientists, but that it appears that bats will eventually be reclassified as primates, due to the way the brain functions.
And it got me to thinking: wouldn't it be interesting if what we think of as the main primate branches were actually decended from bats as the common ancestor, and does that account for the dreams of flying that we experience?
