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 | | Perhaps the single most influential researcher in this renaissance was Ostrom’s former Yale student, the enigmatic Robert Bakker, who in a series of papers argued forcefully for endothermy in Dinosauria, and in particular, Theropoda (Bakker 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1980, 1986). |
 | | The French histologist Armand J. de Ricqles presented data to support Bakker’s conclusions (1974, 1980, 1983) and argued that histological data gleaned from long bones in Dinosauria indicated rapid growth rates and high resting metabolic rate. |
 | | The debate triggered by this work ultimately culminated in a symposium in 1980 to examine the matter (and of which Bakker was highly critical in his 1986 work). |
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