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...Crompton, professor of Geology, said Bakker's work is "a very positive approach to the problem, but I don't think it's a complete solution...
Gould added that there is insufficient evidence to support Bakker's premise that vast amounts of land erosion occurred during the period...
...theory, formulated by Robert T. Bakker of John Hopkins University, emphasized the reduction of the rate of dinosaur species formation as a result of the draining of the shallow seas and the erosion of continental land masses...
Stephen Gould, professor of Geology, said yesterday Bakker's concentration on the decrease in the dinosaur's species origination rate contrasts with traditional theories' emphasis on an increased death rate...
...Writing in Nature, Robert T. Bakker of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology argues that unlike other reptiles, dinosaurs were probably warm-blooded creatures, like most birds and mammals. He cites, among other arguments, anatomical evidence that some dinosaurs may have been able to lope across the countryside at speeds of up to 50 m.p.h. The necessary energy, he says, could not have been mustered by cold-blooded animals; their metabolic systems do not work fast enough. With only their hairless skin to protect them, the warm-blooded dinosaurs were highly vulnerable to sharp drops in temperature. And according...