How many PRIMATES OR APES have a bolt-upright stance when walking on land? Only us.(And Bigfoot). So what does that prove? Toadvine sat with his boots crossed before the fire. No man can acquaint himself with everything on this earth, he said.

Expanding (sorry!) on this linear mass ratio (body::brain) common among avian and non-Homo hominid species... You can opt out of our newsletter at any time and we will delete the information you have given us. An opt out link is included on all our newsletters. Carnosaurs and dromaeosaurs used the claws on their arms for hunting while retaining an horizontal position. Lovecraft mentioned "Serpent people" in a story or two, but never really fleshed out the concept. I find his intelligent Pre-Cambrian Crinoids a lot more interesting. The Hanging Tree is definitely one of the best in the Grant/Aaronovitch pantheon. There again, so have most of the previous books in the series and the odds are the next one probably will be too. (The Bookbag)

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You make a jump from "feasible" to "successful". You equate the two. That isn't warranted by the data.

The easiest way to get cited is to solve a problem in a new way without breaking the overall paradigm, that then catches on in the general media.

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But we are not talking anthropomorphising, but speculating that we might be a good design for an intelligent civilised creature. Why? It already happened before -- just not with the whole world. I'm again talking about Oreopithecus, which is 10 million years old. The most common way is to count how often their publications are cited by later publications, especially those by other people. If something is wrong, it's going to be cited by one or two later publications which show that it's wrong, and then it'll be forgotten; if it's some kind of major breakthrough, it'll be cited and again.

The real reason you keep going is that you're in love with your ideas and have got all protective about them. The Faceless Man, wanted for multiple counts of murder, fraud, and crimes against humanity, has been unmasked and is on the run. Peter Grant, Detective Constable and apprentice wizard, now plays a key role in an unprecedented joint operation to bring him to justice. 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 An small, defenceless theropod that tried to waddle upright in a terrestrial environment would not last long.

Those arms were incredibly strong, and the hands were very large. You seem not to be familiar with... anatomy in general, actually. Hey there David. I do have to admit you win. I have seen the error of my ways. I am a reformed character. The nuclear war that finished off anthroposaur society explains the evidence for global wildfires, the bits of stressed quartz and the tektites interpreted by others as evidence for asteroid impact. Mummified dinosaurs - like Sternberg's famous Edmontosaurus from Wyoming [shown here] - surely owe their remarkable preservation to this global nuclear conflict: I think my favourite sentences in the whole book are 'Dinosaur mummies are rare, but when found they are usually late Cretaceous hadrosaurs. Why should they have died so perfectly and been preserved? Because they died of gamma radiation and neutrons which preserved them as surely as it would preserve strawberries in a plastic bag?' (Magee 1993, p. 148). On the other hand, the Great Extinction we've been causing depends more on our voraciousness and wanderlust than high technology -- between forest clearance, ocean "harvesting", and scattering exotic species, we'd be getting into trouble Real Soon Now, even without the CO2 overload. My book or some other book said the judge. What is to be deviates no jot from the book said the judge. What is to be deviates no jot from the book wherein it's writ. How could it? It would be a false book and a false book is no book at all. [...] Whether in my book or not, every man is tabernacled in every other and he in exchange and so on in an endless complexity of being and witness to the uttermost edge of the world.

For these numbers to fall on a line suggests very strongly that they are dictated not by anything related to an animal's way of life or its environment. Rather, the numbers are dictated by metabolic limits common to any warm-blooded vertebrate living in a sufficiently complicated environment. That is, the brain size is not determined by what is needed to compete; the brain size is simply as large as can be sustained at all, given the resources typically available to these creatures. (I.e., a richer environment yields a larger population, not a bigger brain.) Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive): This isn't a rhetorical question: why would body mass have anything to do with those bits of brains used for thinking? Interestingly...the kinds of dinosaurs we are considering did have useful hand claws...and could therefore have been moving in this direction already!!!!!! It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way.

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Apes are already used to holding their bodies vertical. That comes from brachiating. Gibbons walk upright on the very rare occasions that they walk at all -- they simply keep their vertical bodies vertical. This is an utterly different starting point from that of a troodontid. You can't do statistics with a sample size of 1. Our success only shows that it's possible, not that our body shape is good for it, let alone that anything would evolve it from a totally different starting point. Comment by YariniCeteriThroughout the fight Lord Stormsong will cast Awaken the Void. This will spawn an Awoken Void orb for every player in the group that lands within a few yards of them and attempts to run them down. If you get hit, you get stunned and take some damage, but more importantly fail the achievement. Horses and antelopes are adapted to walking very long distances with very little energy expenditure. Humans? With those ridiculously clunky legs? You must be kidding.