[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index][Subject Index][Author Index]

RE: FUCHSIA and the Ostrom Symposium Volume

To: "'dinosaur@usc.edu'" <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Subject: RE: FUCHSIA and the Ostrom Symposium Volume
From: "Williams, Tim" <TiJaWi@agron.iastate.edu>
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 17:44:06 -0500
Reply-to: TiJaWi@agron.iastate.edu
Sender: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu

Dinogeorge wrote:

> How about that the "biomechanical hardware" was present in ground-
> hunting maniraptorans >from< the conversion of the flight stroke into 
> the predatory  stroke? 

That'll work too.  I would add that the two scenarios are not necessarily
mutually exclusive.

> It's evolutionarily much easier this way.

Who says?  And since when is evolution obliged to follow the path that's
"easier"?  

Tim

------------------------------------------------------------ 

Timothy J. Williams, Ph.D. 

USDA-ARS Researcher 
Agronomy Hall 
Iowa State University 
Ames IA 50014 

Phone: 515 294 9233 
Fax:   515 294 9359

Prev by Date: FUCHSIA
Next by Date: Paleo/Sediment Conference in Chicago this spring...
Previous by thread: Lotosaurus-like animal? (was Re: archosaurs stance (again))
Next by thread: Re:FUCHSIA and the Ostrom Symposium Volume
Indexes: