Without speaking for Professor Spotila, I'm sure he knows better than
this. He is an expert on turtles, and there are at least three
different sex determination methods in that group alone, including a
number (chelids, softshells) that do not depend on temperature at all.
At 11:31 AM 23/08/2006, Jaime A. Headden wrote:
The good Professor Spotila simply applies
logic:
Reptiles let their sex be determined by temperature.
Dinosaurs are reptiles.
Therefore dinosaurs let their sex be determined by temperature.
But his premises are trash,
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