feeling sad

[lupinesque]

David wrote:

> He helped me understand what the adaptationist controversy is about 
> (it matters, if you care when scientists allege, for example, that 
> women are biologically adapted to stay at home while men aren't), 
as 
> well as why my kids' dinosaur books didn't have the Brontosaurus in 
> them, whereas mine did.

I was informed of the name change by a much higher authority than 
some hotshot Harvard paleontologist:  a five-year-old boy.  <g>

Supposedly Apatosaurus was made official in 1974, when I wasn't much 
older than that myself, but it took me until adulthood to learn 
the "new" name.  Perhaps because the Peabody Museum, in whose echoing 
halls I learned most of my natural history, was so proud of its 
Brontosaurus that it had a vested interest in dragging its feet?

Amy