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Identifier: originevolutiono00osbo (find matches)
Title: The origin and evolution of life, on the theory of action, reaction and interaction of energy
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935
Subjects: Evolution Life -- Origin
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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Lateral view of the tyrant dinosaur, Tyran-nosaurus (left), and the ostrich dinosaur,Slruthiomimus (right), to the same scale. Fig. 92. Extremes of Adaptation in theTyrant and the Ostrich Dinosaurs. Skeletons mounted in the American Museum ofNatural History. CARNIVOROUS DINOSAURS 215 than I /4000 of the estimated body weight, indicates that inanimals mechanical evolution is quite independent of theevolution of their intelligence; in fact, intelligence compensatesfor the absence of mechanical perfection. Tyrannosaums is ^^(f? y^<^
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Fig. 93. Four Restorations of the Ostrich Dinosaur, Stnithiomimus (Ornithomimus). A. Showing the mode of progression. B. Illustrating the hypothesis that the animal was an anteater which used the front claws like those of sloths in tearing down anthills. C. Illustrating the hypothesis that it was a browser which supported the fore part of the body by means of the long, curved claws of the fore limb while browsing on trees. D. Illustrating the hypothesis that it was a wading type, feeding upon shrimps and smaller crustaceans.Restorations by Osbom. No satisfactory theory of the habits of this animal has asyet been advanced. an illustration of the law of compensation, first enunciated byGeoffroy St. Hilaire, first, in the disproportion between thediminutive fore limb and the gigantic hind limb, and second,in the fact that the feeble grasping power and consequentdegeneration of the fore limb and hand are more than com-pensated for by the development of the tail and the hind claws. 2l6 THE

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