Scientists ponder 'the Lilliput effect'
16th Nov 2006, 21:52 GMT
(CS Monitor) In Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Lilliput was a fictional island nation inhabited by people somewhat under six inches high - the Lilliputians. Modern paleontologists have adopted the term, the Lilliput effect, to mean something slightly different. Organisms that survive mass extinctions tend to be much smaller than those that came before...11/16
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