Re: Ruben Strikes Back

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/24/99 3:24:44 PM EST, mbonnan@hotmail.com writes:

<< George, have you ever considered putting together a large publication in a 
 journal like JVP or Morphology or Paleobiology where your hypothesis might 
 have more exposure to the paleontological and neontological communities?  I 
 was thinking you could even do a comparison of cladistic vs. traditional 
 phylogenetic approaches to the birds-up/birds-down questions, and perhaps 
 address some of the physical shortcomings in either model. >>

Of course! But unfortunately, this takes lots and lots of time, and I'd need 
to be financially supported while doing this work, so that my family and I 
wouldn't starve while I was "fooling around with dinosaurs." I originally 
imagined that selling my own dinosaur publications would provide this 
support, but so far I've not been able to find a big enough market for them 
the way I did with, for example, my Marvel Comics Index project of the 1980s. 
And so for now I simply debate my view of dinosaur-bird origins on the List 
in my spare time. (A good thing, by the way, since I've sharpened a lot of my 
arguments as a result.)