title: The origin of snakes: limits of a scientific debate.
abstract: The origin of snakes has recently become a palaeontological 'hot potato'. Two groups of scientists have come to very different conclusions from the studying the same fossils. Are there tests capable of rejecting wither one of these alternative conclusions or will human interpretation always allow such differences of opinion?
authors.affiliation: The Field Museum, Chicago, IL, USA. orieppel@fieldmuseum.org
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Rieppel
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kearney
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D005580:Fossils; D010163:Paleontology / Q000639:trends*; D010802:Phylogeny; D012911:Snakes / Q000145:classification*