Posted on 11/24/2018 12:36:30 PM PST by ETL
ROFL
My biology-for-majors professor often used language such as, “This species WANTED to walk on land...”
Thanks ETL. Oh, look -- some brain-dead moron put "piltdownman" into the keywords again. Gosh, we are so impressed. Just not in the way the troll had planned.
“Researchers have hypothesized that sauropods grew big to avoid getting eaten.”
Lamarckism makes its comeback! I’m going to hypothesize that sauropods grew big because they were genetically programmed to do so in their DNA, but I’m an amateur.
The other alternative is that they wished they were bigger because they were getting eaten too much, and so they willed themselves larger after they were eaten? Who are these researchers?
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Everybody knows that they grew so big because no one remembered to tell them not to.
When there’s absence of evidence, keep on walking like you didn’t do anything.
Exactly!
the absurdity, it burns....................
The idea is that those that happened to grow large had a better survival rate and so more of them lived to pass on their "large dino" genes to the next generation.
Perfect RINOturtle.
Here are more of the Therapsids. For I time I attended mineral and jewelry shows and earned a space by giving classes. One was titled “Which Came First, the Mammal or the Dinosaur?” I had some neat Therapsid artwork for that class. Here is what Google has on Images of Therapsids
What is interesting about the subject critter is that it was found in the late Triassic. Virtually all Therapsids were killed off by the great dying at the end of the Permian. As one article said, the only thing left afterwards was Lystrosaurus, great quantities of Lystrosaurus. In the area of South Africa where their remains were found, the scientists found so many that they would groan in disgust when they found another one, and another one, and another one.
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