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Re: Paedomorphosis ( Re: BARYONYX' CLAWS )

To: jjackson@interalpha.co.uk, Dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: Re: Paedomorphosis ( Re: BARYONYX' CLAWS )
From: Dinogeorge <Dinogeorge@aol.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 04:10:54 EDT
Reply-to: Dinogeorge@aol.com
Sender: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu

In a message dated 98-04-12 03:02:35 EDT, jjackson@interalpha.co.uk writes:

<< They evolved for gliding and steering, which evolved from parachuting and
 steering. >>

I consider all these as primitive kinds of >flying<. Aerodynamically
controlled trajectories, that sort of thing. Consider an animal that
parachutes as part of its arboreal lifestyle. Its ground-dwelling descendants
lose the ability to parachute. They're what? Secondarily parachuteless?

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