Re: Hands and brains

[David@interworld.com (David Levine)]

Timothy van der Linden wrote:
> 
> Reply to Ric:
> 
> >>Maybe they had a smaller brain because they were (coldblooded?) reptiles
> >>instead of warmblooded mammals.
> >
> >This is in great debate right now. Depends on which camp you are in. Dr
> >Bakker beleives they were mostly warm blooded based partly on the care of
> >young and other factors I can't remember right now. I tend to lean twords
> >his beliefs.
> >Ric
> 
> They did lay eggs, I think? And they did not have hairs like most mammals.
> Did dinosaurs have scales like reptiles?
> 

But Ric is just saying that they may have been warm
blooded - he's not saying they may have been mammals.
Birds, for instance, are warm blooded, but they're
not mammals.

David