Re: Sauropodan Anchisaurs and Feeuccia Reversals

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

David Marjanovic (david.marjanovic@gmx.at) wrote:

<Now that's what I call a good shock! A good reminder that not all papers
to wait for are on feathered friends from Liaoning. :-) (Now for a library
with AMN...)>

  This sounds pretty good. Not that I agree with the assessment at
face-value, not seeing the data, but there are various other reasons to
consider the assumptions as valid. Sauropodan *Anchisaurus* however,
belies the distinctly primitive and plesiomorphic nature of the forelimbs
and vertebrae, so it should be interesting to see how Adam resolves this
later, in contrast to *Isanosaurus* from Thailand, *Bellusaurus* from
China, etc.. I look forward to the full paper with much un-belated
excitement.

<No reactions at all to Feduccia's et aliorum newest claim? Not having
seen the paper, I suggest they've once more found the praepollex. I'll
have to scan those old drawings sometime...>

  Effectively an old restatement that appears to have ignored despite
being a response to recent published criticism employing the homeotic
shift theory. One would thing that Wagner and Gauthier were _grasping_ for
some way to reinterpret the Homberger/Feduccia studies, but then you think
that that's their job. I'd hate to see, as in some, the same tired refrain
again and again as a reply to contradiction. "But it is, and you are too
stupid and dogmatic to see it otherwise" or some such.

  It's _et alii_, btw....

  Cheers,

=====
Jaime A. Headden

  Little steps are often the hardest to take.  We are too used to making leaps 
in the face of adversity, that a simple skip is so hard to do.  We should all 
learn to walk soft, walk small, see the world around us rather than zoom by it.

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