Jay Lake mentioned 'The Helix and the Sword' - one of my all time favourite sci-fi novels, but rarely referred to and not given the recognition it deserves in my opinion. Lots of good stuff about genetic modification. Would be interesting sci-fi. Scary Ravenmasters invade from parallel world. They come with terrible soldiers and slaves - semi-sapient descendants of wolves and big cats. And, to make things worse, Ravenmasters are adept in spreading divisions and manipulating humanity to their goals... Aaronovitch makes the story sing, building momentum until the ending is literally breathless.”—SF Revu So you're saying that you must already be upright so that you can become a world-dominating species? Argument for an "anthropomorphic" dinosauroid -- one with stance and proportions like humans -- depends on a priori assumption that the human plan is better than a more birdlike one. Is this assumption supportable by argument?

This linear mass relationship seems very suspicious to me. It suggests that the mass of nerve tissue found in creatures is a consequence of some sort of resource budgeting that has only a tenuous relationship to how much processing power can be brought to bear for the short periods where it tends to make a difference.

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The easiest way to get cited a lot is to destroy the overall paradigm based on lots of good evidence. Translation: you emotionally like the idea that the hypothetical ancestors of the speculative dinosauroid were in such a situation.

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. Why? It already happened before -- just not with the whole world. I'm again talking about Oreopithecus, which is 10 million years old. Interestingly...the kinds of dinosaurs we are considering did have useful hand claws...and could therefore have been moving in this direction already!!!!!! The Met has started a major operation, led by and from the Folly, to catch the Faceless Man. By necessity, Peter will need to confront his old friend gone rogue, Lesley May, and to do that he will need to find out what to with Mr Punch. [1]His among the clouded faces seemed unperturbed. He looked over the Americans, their gear. In truth they did not look like men who might have whiskey they hadnt drunk. But we are not talking anthropomorphising, but speculating that we might be a good design for an intelligent civilised creature. General climate change? What general climate change? There's no evidence for any, except for changed rainfall patterns for tens of thousands of years after the impact, exactly what's expected when hundreds of cubic kilometers of seawater are suddenly vaporized.