Lies Sleeping

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Oh - and when I said Spec's birds were lame, I did not have carpos and nerds of paradise in mind, rather things like the tweety-birds. He bows to the fiddlers and sashays backwards and throws back his head and laughs deep in his throat and he is a great favorite, the judge.

a paleontologist becomes obsessed with the idea of that dinosaurs must've produced at least one intelligence. His folk are known for hewers of wood and drawers of water but in truth his father has been a schoolmaster.Any thoughts on play behaviour as an indicator of sentience, and highly developed play behaviour as an indicator of significant intelligence? Aaronovitch has done a fantastic job creating a huge and intriguing group of characters for this series. Mammals and birds generally seem to show play behaviour at least at some stages in their lives - with the apparently more intelligent forms showing more developed play behaviour. To be precise, I wonder if it has been explored whether lying on that line implies only seasonal use of full brain capacity.

We might speculate that brain tissue may be repurposed from managing physical processes, temporarily, for thinking. Some visual characteristics like the toe-less, club-shaped feet and angular bodies, might look a bit like Barlowian, but I wouldn't go as far to equate that with "brain theft. As in McLoughlin (1984), it is suggested that the low-diversity ornithischian assemblage of late Maastrichtian North America reflects the fact that the smart dinosaurs maintained Triceratops and Edmontosaurus as domestic animals: 'herded on the great plains before being shipped to a Cretaceous Chicago for making into meat pies and hamburgers' (Magee 1993, p.Unfortunately for them, the cat didn't know it was supposed to be upset, or even predatory, and kept making play gestures back at them. Unfortunately, though, Daniel Bensen and Brian Choo haven't done anything for years, due to lack of time.

Since people with such, er, unconventional beliefs always hold them very strongly, I just sat back and listened in awe. The cognitive efficiency -- to be crude, theorems proven per unit time per unit mass of nerve cells -- ought to be low for younger genera, and higher for older ones. At the end of the asteroid strike lecture, the professor notes that this almost definitely wiped out the dinosaurs, giving us our opportunity, and that any similar event might give the insects a chance. The way this works out in the end is quite dramatic, and it will be interesting to see where it goes from there.On the way, Magee stops to look at Elaine Morgan's aquatic ape hypothesis (I'm still not sure why) and generally agrees with it, and also spends a chapter examining the evidence for evolutionary saltation and super-rapid evolution (Magee 1993). He is an extremely charming and old-fashioned character who has a huge amount of magical power at his fingertips and who can be quite intimidating if he puts his mind to it.