On 8/15/2011 8:34 PM, Tim Williams wrote:
Thus, it was argued that because_Caudipteryx_ had proportionally long hindlimbs, with a hindlimb/trunk ratio comparable to modern birds, it adopted avian-style locomotion, and was therefore secondarily flightless (Jones et al., 1998).
"Hindlimb/trunk" does not directly convey information about relative femur length. Did you mean to write "hindlimb/femur"?