Re: Cold or Hot?

[Mickey Mortimer <Mickey_Mortimer111@msn.com>]

Jason wrote-

> To put it another way: No, there has been no
> resolution yet. There probably won't ever will be.

Roger Seymour wrote-

> It is also clear that there will never be a concensus.  As I said in the
> second paper above, it is just a matter of looking at the evidence as a
> whole and forming an opinion.

Why the defeatist attitude?  It's not like we're anywhere close to
completely understanding the physiology of living animals yet.  Surely we'll
eventually know enough to correlate various characters with corresponding
ranges of endo-exothermy, homeo-poekilothermy, and metabolic rates in living
animals, at which point we can use their presence in different Mesozoic
dinosaurs to make strong predictions about their physiology.

Mickey Mortimer
Undergraduate, Earth and Space Sciences
University of Washington
The Theropod Database - http://students.washington.edu/eoraptor/Home.html