Re: Paedomorphosis ( Re: BARYONYX' CLAWS )

["Matthew Troutman" <m_troutman@hotmail.com>]

>> Humans have long arms, but we cannot just strap on wings 
>> and fly. Improvements must be made for flight to evolve.

<<This is my point exactly. Cursorial, ground-dwelling theropods could 
not just strap on wings and fly, either, especially with those puny 
forelimbs. Powered flight >must< have evolved through a series of 
incremental improvements to earlier, more primitive kinds of flying, 
unless you believe in miracles.>>

 I don't believe in the cursorial origin of flight either. But you 
ignore that flight may have evolved from animals that exapted certain 
features of climbing and gliding. 

Plus, then I guess the transition from water to land is a miracle.

MattTroutman

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