Jack Horner

Name: How to Build a Dinosaur
ISBN: 9781101028711

Scientist

1946-06-15

Books by Jack Horner

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Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.
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Dinosaurs are built just like birds - they can squat down, they can get up. Mammals, when we lay down, we throw our legs out to the sides - birds cannot do that. Dinosaurs could not do that either.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.
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I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.
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