Concept information
Preferred term
dinosaurian hominid
Definition
- Contemplating “what if” questions about the extinction of nonavian dinosaurs has long been a pastime of scientists and the general public alike. If the dinosaurs hadn't died out, how would they have evolved, and could they have developed sentience? It is just those questions that paleontologist Dale Russell and model maker/taxidermist Ron Séguin attempted to address in proposing a hypothetical hominid-like dinosaur they called a “dinosauroid.” This musing appeared as an addendum to a 1982 paper that detailed the process of skeletal reconstruction and modeling behind the construction of a mount of the dinosaur Stenonychosaurus for the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Ottawa, Canada. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Dinosaurian Hominid]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/dinosaurian_hominid
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