Re: Discovery tonight ... 8 pm

[Mike Habib <habib@jhmi.edu>]

On Dec 8, 2009, at 11:46 AM, Michael Erickson wrote:

> One thing that I absolutely _must_ make clear is that I do not, in  
> any way, shape, or form, agree with how that senquence on the show  
> depicted the proposed kinesis working. The way that they protrayed  
> the lower jaw literally becoming "unhinged" from the quadrate was  
> totally wrong, no arguments here.

Ah, gotcha - sorry to jump to conclusions.  It does highlight a common  
misconception, though, and there are many individuals who envision  
snakes working that way, as well.  Happy you are not among them  
(didn't really think you were), but it still stands as something that  
anyone talking about cranial kinesis to the public and/or press may  
want to help clarify.  I try not to let interviewers get away with the  
old "unhinging" or "dislocating" the jaw comments these days.

Cheers,

--Mike H.