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Re: Re The biggest dinosaurs

To: Matt Fraser <mattf+@pitt.edu>
Subject: Re: Re The biggest dinosaurs
From: John Bois <jbois@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 01:09:55 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au>, dinosaur@usc.edu
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On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Matt Fraser wrote:
> Keep in mind, too, the Jarmen-Bell principle.  Trends toward arge size on
> part of herbivores may be related to an over-abundance of low quality
> food.  Of course, large size in Predators may have followed necessarilly.

Are you referring here to size vs. metabolic rate relationship?  Aren't
there smaller things which utilize abundant low quality forage--I'm
thinking of a sloth.

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- Re: Re The biggest dinosaurs
  - From: Matt Fraser <mattf+@pitt.edu>

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