Re: Requiem for Diatryma: An SVPCA Epilogue

[CPorter9@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/22/99 10:12:24 AM, cfkammer@midway.uchicago.edu writes:

>Forced in many analyses of morphology and probable
>lifestyle to represent simply a giant, grass-cutting, fairly innocuous
>herbivore, what I liken to as the spirit in the genus was gone as soon
>as the creature slipped from terror of the Eocene to oversized tahake. 


Thank you. That was lovely, and a fitting tribute 
for the metamorphosis of one belief system to another.

--Cheers, Chris Porter Illustration http://members.aol.com/cporter9/