RE: II CLPV talk summaries: Day 1

[Tim Williams <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

Scott Hartman wrote:

> I gave the next talk, which some of you already know was on the origin of 
> avian flight.  I made a number of methodological critiques on previous 
> attempts to understand the origin of flight, which I won?t bore you with 
> here unless someone is interested enough to really warrant that much space 
> (it?ll be in the paper though!).

Go on - bore me.  (It'll be a nice change from the spam that continually 
creeps into my Inbox.)  Though, I wouldn't want any response of yours to 
interfere with your other CLPV talk summaries, or prevent you from imbibing 
the sights and sounds of Rio.  :-)

> I did make a rigorous comparison between extant ?analogs? for arboreal 
> gliding organisms and theropods,

The thing is (and you're welcome to disagree) modern gliding tetrapods tend 
to use passive aerial locomotion as a rapid and energy-efficient way to 
commute between trees.  I'm not sure this holds for feathered maniraptorans. 
 But I'm happy to wait-for-the-paper to see your own comparison to modern 
gliders.

Cheers

Tim