From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Tue Jul 06 1999 - 06:29:06 MDT
Peter Lakbar <peter.lakbar@swipnet.se> writes:
> Seems pretty unlikely that the ancients would have found a T-Rex skeleton
> complete enough to give them any idea of what the animal would have looked
> like when alive, or indeed any dinosaur skeleton that would have let them
> understand that they were looking at the remains of a lizard-like creature.
Good point; real dinosaur fossils are rather incomprehensible and hard
to notice for the untrained viewer. However, we don't need to invoke
fossils, "racial memories" (rather, old phobias) or exaggerations of
snake - people can very well have seen or experienced crocodiles, and
then the stories grew.
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