Re: All this flying talk---then comes the why..or something

[Dinogeorge <Dinogeorge@aol.com>]

In a message dated 98-04-15 12:00:29 EDT, padron@online.no writes:

<< But those birds has evolved by millions of years. Avian flight may have
started as 
 easyer way of attacking, >>

Here we have the problem of the future determining the past. The animals have
no way of knowing, when they first go up into the trees, that they will be
able to attack from this vantage point. Arboreal predation must have developed
>after< the animals were already in the trees. Soon after, perhaps; but after
nonetheless.