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Post #223,788 by Andrew Grygus 9/8/05 11:35:37 PM Reply	I see they've update sufficiently . . . . . to show them covered with fur, since recently discovered fossils have shown that to be the case. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #223,789 by Another Scott 9/8/05 11:40:22 PM Reply	I guess Todd was just a few 100,000,000 years off then. [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=101673\|#101673]. ;-) Cheers, Scott.
Post #223,818 by tuberculosis 9/9/05 3:54:41 AM 8/21/07 12:41:15 PM Reply	Aren't feathers same as fur with really bad split ends? "Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein "This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush Edited by tuberculosis Aug. 21, 2007, 12:41:15 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #223,896 by Another Scott 9/9/05 12:32:41 PM Reply	Not really. It's topology at work. I recall a biologist explaining the difference between the evolution of feathers and hair this way: You have a planar surface interface between the animal and the environment. The plane can change in 2 ways. It can locally bend up or or it can locally bend down. From that basic starting point, skin coverings evolved 2 ways. If the skin bends up, you have feathers or scales. If it bends down, you have hair. [link\|http://www-hsc.usc.edu/~cmchuong/2003JEZAdapt.pdf\|This] 15 page .pdf discusses these issues in more detail with lots of pretty pictures. Cheers, Scott.

Whew! That's big! 68 kB .img - (Another Scott) - (14) - Sept. 8, 2005, 11:14:12 PM EDT

I see they've update sufficiently . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (3) - Sept. 8, 2005, 11:35:37 PM EDT

I guess Todd was just a few 100,000,000 years off then. - (Another Scott) - (2) - Sept. 8, 2005, 11:40:22 PM EDT

Aren't feathers same as fur with really bad split ends? -NT - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Aug. 21, 2007, 12:41:15 PM EDT

Not really. It's topology at work. - (Another Scott) - Sept. 9, 2005, 12:32:41 PM EDT

That looks like something out of a Tim Burton movie - (bionerd) - (9) - Sept. 10, 2005, 11:43:10 AM EDT

Oh, they look pretty efficient . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - Sept. 10, 2005, 12:23:38 PM EDT

Re: evolutionary design flaw - (hnick) - (7) - Sept. 10, 2005, 02:02:05 PM EDT

But . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (6) - Sept. 10, 2005, 02:27:26 PM EDT

A meteor will help with that -NT - (ben_tilly) - (1) - Sept. 10, 2005, 04:39:45 PM EDT

As will volcanos. - (Andrew Grygus) - Sept. 10, 2005, 06:55:54 PM EDT

Good point. - (bionerd) - (3) - Sept. 10, 2005, 07:02:31 PM EDT

I imagine they were used in some courtship ritual too. - (Another Scott) - (2) - Sept. 10, 2005, 08:40:40 PM EDT

'Dear Diary: today my heart leapt when Agent Scully - (Ashton) - Sept. 10, 2005, 11:16:49 PM EDT

Makes me glad the only thing I have to contend with - (bionerd) - Sept. 11, 2005, 11:09:59 AM EDT

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