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The idea that you can determine the size of an animal from a single bone comes from Cuvier and was an early development in paleontology. I don't know how much p
by theoh 12y ago
The idea that you can determine the size of an animal from a single bone comes from Cuvier and was an early development in paleontology. I don't know how much progress there has been on the task of putting it on a firm scientific footing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Cuvier#Principle_of_the_correlation_of_parts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Cuvier#Principle_of_the...
- Retric 12y agoLower leg bones are likely to directly relate to body weight where say teeth on the other extreme have little to so with it. Overall, it's note quite BS because it can be somewhat true. Ex: Sabertooth cat and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narwhal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narwhal