Re: FUCHSIA and the Ostrom Symposium Volume (long...)

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 8/9/02 1:54:29 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
TiJaWi@agron.iastate.edu writes:

<< Ah, the wonder of evolution.  The point made by Gauthier, Gishlick and
 others is that the biomechanical hardware was present in ground-hunting
 maniraptorans for the conversion of the predatory stroke into the flight
 stroke.  No author has claimed the two motions to be identical. >>

How about that the "biomechanical hardware" was present in ground-hunting 
maniraptorans >from< the conversion of the flight stroke into the predatory 
stroke? It's evolutionarily much easier this way.