Re: Are birds really smarter than non-avian dinosaurs?

[ptnorton <ptnorton@suscom-maine.net>]

I believe Gould said it was a margin note in one of Darwin's journals. This 
phrase is reworked a bit by Darwin in his section on development and 
embryology in the Origin (ch. 14) in which he wrote "...it is hardly 
possible to define clearly what is meant by the organisation being higher or 
lower."  Unfortunately, having said that, he then went on (in the next 
sentence) to write that "(B)ut no one probably will dispute that the 
butterfly is higher than the caterpillar."

But hey, it's still a pretty good book...

PTJN


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>
To: "DML" <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 5:23 PM
Subject: Re: Are birds really smarter than non-avian dinosaurs?


> > Could you provide a citation for that please, David?
>
> Could be a bit difficult. I think it's something he scribbled into a book 
> margin long before he published the Origin.
>
> But anyway, I got that from Gould's book Full House (which I don't have 
> here, so I can't check it out).