Thoughts in a Haystack

For those of us who don't follow the daily small doings of Coyne & Myers, what's this in honour of?

BTW, the cartoon put me in mind of a bit in the recent book 'All Yesterdays' which explores the ways extinct animals are reconstructed in paleoart. One section looks at how how extant animals might be reconstructed by someone who'd never seen them and used the techniques often applied to dinosaurs and the like, such as shrinkwrapping. There's a bit by a future paleontologist remarking of the cat that 'never mind one switchblade claw on its feet like dromaeosaurs, the cat had 5 switchblade claws on each front foot.'

Cool book if you've any interest in things paleo.

 

For those of us who don't follow the daily small doings of Coyne & Myers, what's this in honour of?

Oh, it is just about the mostly good humored promotion of all things feline by Jerry, replete with "Caturday" posts, and PZ's counter with "Anticaturday" posts, usually about things cephalopodian.

Cool book if you've any interest in things paleo.

Thanks for the tip.
 

Ah, Ok. Now I remember. Couple of years ago I'd have got it immediately. Over the past few years I've been paying more attention to the science rather than the controversy. Your blog is one of the few spots I go to these days where such things turn up.

BTW, if you need another book recommendation, I can't recommend too highly Mark Witton's 'Pterosaurs: Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy' (http://www.amazon.com/Pterosaurs-Natural-History-Evolution-Anatomy/dp/0691150613/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1376534302&sr=1-1). Beautiful, up to date and inexpensive!

BTW, Mark has a blog with some neat stuff at http://markwitton-com.blogspot.co.uk/


 

Thanks again. I'll look into both.
 

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