You know how when you jump into a parallel timeline , or you watch the Super Mario Bros. movie , sometimes dinosaurs have evolve into intelligent creatures ? commonly they look like scaly human beings – you basic reptoid model of beast . And that ’s all wrong , according to paleontologist Darren Naish , who points outin an eloquent essay on his web log Tetrapod Zoologythat an intelligent dinosaur would have evolve a consistence Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe and size that suited its evolutionary chronicle . So what would that look like ? Now , at last , we have an solution . Meet Avisapiens saurotheos , the first scientifically exact dinosauroid , produce by creative person Cevdet Kosemen .
Writes Naish onTetrapod Zoology :
There really is n’t any grounds to imagine that big - brained dinosaurs would have evolve in the first position ( recall that even ‘ big - brain ’ Troodon was , at best , on equivalence with Struthio camelus and opossums ) . Even if they had , there is also no rationality to think that they would have cease up looking like scaly people … or feathery masses , have that we now cognise that troodontids were square … The reasonableness that we humans have the body shape that we do is not – I call up – because it ’s the ‘ best ’ body form for a sassy , vauntingly - brain biped to have , it is instead the solvent of our specific lineage ’s evolutionary story . open that , so far as we bang , the humanoid body shape has acquire just once , we simply have no way of knowing whether it ’s a peculiarly ‘ good ’ word structure or not . Furthermore , the humanoid torso shape is not a requirement for the evolution of big brain give that brains proportionally as self-aggrandising as , or bigger than , those of hominids are find in some doll and Pisces ( that ’s right : man do NOT have the proportionally biggest brains ) .
With this in mind , my flavour on dinosauroids and levelheaded theropods and so on is that – if they were to develop – they would n’t depend like scaly , or feathery , people , but would rather be far more normal from the theropod tip of opinion . A horizontal body strength , not a erect one . digitigrade mammal feet , not plantigrade ace . A recollective tail , not a reduced one …
I love his point about how we always get into that the human anatomy is the beneficial for intelligent life . We are so biped - centrical , hoi polloi ! Read the whole awesome essay atTetZoo !
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