Re: All In A Name (was Re: New dino 'links major landmasses')

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

The Greek _ops_ in this case means face, the orbital region, the front of
the skull, or the "aspect;" the derivation _opti-_ refers to where vision
comes from, or the place in which the eye sits, orbital area or
circumorbital bones, etc., but the root refers to the region of the skull.
The word is very broad and is often used in taxonomy to refer to the
"face" rather than "eye," as in *Triceratops.* In Greek, _rogi-_ or
_rugo-_ refer to wrinkles, crumpled grapes, etc., thinks with excessive
wrinkled "texture," "cracks," "fissures," etc. "Rough," thus, is a broad
interpretation, but "wrinkle" is the fine definition applied by the authors.

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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.

"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)


        
                
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