Re: The Continuing Story of Gliders to Dinosaurs

["Grant Harding" <granth@cyberus.ca>]

Stanley Friesen wrote:
>>Perfect!  An indri-like dinosaur would be a perfect ringer for an arboreal
>>theropod ancestor.  One could well imagine one line of its descendants
going
>>down to the ground, and naturally becoming bipedal, grasping-handed
>>predators, and another lineage staying up in the trees, adapting its
>>(already present) display feathers to help it with those long interbranch
>>leaps, and voila, we have a bird!
>
>Or, an even more complex phylogeny, with several lineages branching out
>from the basal group, some of which become terrestrial at various times,
>others of which remain arboreal/scansorial and one of which evolves into
birds.

Well, yes, that is actually what I meant; I was just simplifying it a great
deal.  I know it doesn't mean the same thing; my fault.

-Grant

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