No more paedomorphosis, bah

[Dinogeorge <Dinogeorge@aol.com>]

In a message dated 98-04-14 22:39:55 EDT, m_troutman@hotmail.com writes:

<< So, since I believe that flight came from an arboreal existence, I 
 believe in BCF? I have always supported the arboreal origin of avian 
 flight and find no incongruencies between theropod anatomy and arboreal 
 lifestyle in some of the smaller, birdlike species.  >>

You're close. As soon as you agree that many, perhaps all, theropods descended
from ancestors that were capable of some kind of flying (I'm using the general
definition, not specifically ornithopting, as I noted in an earlier post),
you're there.