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Re: Claws on deinonychosaurs

To: mhabib5@jhmi.edu
Subject: Re: Claws on deinonychosaurs
From: Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu>
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 22:49:36 -0500
Cc: dinosaur@usc.edu, frank bliss <frank@blissnet.com>
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Quoting Michael Habib <mhabib5@jhmi.edu>:

Also, 'assassins knives' are recurved, not decurved, to the best of my knowledge, so I don't think they are often claw-shaped. Decurved knives are produced; I do not know what their purpose is.

Sickles are decurved, of course. But then I suppose their purpose is to gather grain into bundles as it's cut.

Nick Pharris
Department of Linguistics
University of Michigan

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