Re: Hone and Benton 2007 (their second paper)

[Tim Williams <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

Scott Hartman wrote:

> Or, since it shows no arborreal adaptations, would it be more parsimonious 
> to assume it didn't take off, period?

Depends what you mean by "arboreal"?  Are you saying that _Archaeopteryx_ 
was not arboreal because it lacked perching adaptations?

In a previous post, Jim Cunningham stated that goats were arboreal because 
they can climb trees.  But what goats do is hook their hooves over branches 
and clamber up the tree (not very elegantly).   However, goats do not 
habitually climb trees and they show no specific adaptations to either 
scansoriality or arboreality.

Cheers

Tim

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