When we got there, Chillagoe turned out to be a single chimneystack sticking up out of acres of ruins under waist-high lawyer vines.

Liaoning dromaeosaurids may simply be a grade on the line to velociraptorines and dromaeosaurines, and short arms may have evolved multiple times in this grade.

Their feet steady, their hands diligent, their eyes watchful, and their hearts resolute.

The increasing solicitude for human life that characterizes administrative government is limited to people who are perceived as members or citizens of the polity, for reasons that will be discussed at length in Chapter 6.