Lies Sleeping

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Blood, he said. This country is give much blood. This Mexico. This is a thirsty country. The blood of a thousand Christs. Nothing. An small, defenceless theropod that tried to waddle upright in a terrestrial environment would not last long. Ever heard of Gibbons? Having a bolt-upright stance might be the only possible way for an ape to walk on the ground and have the hands free for tool use, but animals who started with a radically different anatomy might adopt a radically different solution. It also implies that the animal can make use of as much processing power as can be brought to bear -- but only sometimes, such as during mating season, so that the cost of sustaining any extra brain mass during the rest of the time limits its size. This suggests, further, strong selective pressure to improve brain architecture to make more economical use of what brain tissue can be afforded, applied to those problems where it makes the difference -- again, most likely, mating competition. It suggests, finally, that Homo's innovation was in discovering uses for extra brain tissue on an everyday basis, to justify a metabolic investment above that of other creatures of similar mass.

Magee, M. 1993. Who Lies Sleeping: the Dinosaur Heritage and the Extinction of Man. AskWhy! Publications, Frome. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god. [...] Only now is the child finally divested of all that he has been. His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again in all the world's turning will there be terrains so wild and barbarous to try whether the stuff of creation may be shaped to man's will or whether his own heart is not another kind of clay.You must have been sleeping for the last twenty years. The K-Pg* boundary mass extinction event is the best-explained mass extinction event of them all. It's understood in remarkable detail. Translation: you emotionally like the idea that the hypothetical ancestors of the speculative dinosauroid were in such a situation. The Dino would have evolved it as we did. And in fact it can be said they start in a better position that we did.

Then why didn't Tyrannosaurus walk upright? As Andreas Johansson has said, it had a huge skull with enormous jaw muscles. The head must have weighed a lot.Portugal & Spain on the one hand and China on the other didn't know anything about each other at that time. What's more, they didn't have any effects on each other. That's not what competition looks like.

Gibbons walk upright whenever they walk, orang-utans most of that time. They just don't walk much in the first place. Instead, they spend their time hanging in the trees and holding their bodies... vertically. It is a move away from your biting teeth being the main weapon, to your head, with eyes and brain, becoming the most precious thing, and your hands and weapons come up to fight. Interestingly...the kinds of dinosaurs we are considering did have useful hand claws...and could therefore have been moving in this direction already!!!!!! Are you autistic/mentally challenged/suffering from Alz[he]imers? SEE, I can call names. How dare you call me bipolar! (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) The real reason you keep going is that you're in love with your ideas and have got all protective about them. Thanks to Steve Bodio, Jeff Hecht and Jeff Liston for instigating it all. And to see what's happening with Russell's dinosauroid these days, visit Michael Ryan's article here.

The good book does indeed count war an evil, said Irving. Yet there's many a bloody tale of war inside it. I'm surprised no-one mentioned a Kangaroo. So I just did. Did I just ruin my own argument? A kanga is kind of what the Dino would have been like half way in between. It travels on two legs--and can travel long distances, with good vision when upright Plus, we don't know to a great extent how hard the frogs were hit. For instance, there were ceratophryids in Madagascar in the Maastrichtian, and nowadays there aren't -- but Madagascar has no known terrestrial fossil record between the Maastrichtian and the Pleistocene or so.