Dave Hone

The vast majority of dinosaur species, like 90 plus percent, are known from a single specimen.

And a specimen is not necessarily very complete at all.

It might be a couple of bones.

It might be one bone.

It might be a tooth in a couple of cases.

The actual number, where we've got a decent number of real whole skeletons that we can actually compare to each other...

Less than 10, probably more like five or six.

Yeah, probably.

You could probably reconstruct a lot, right?

And if nothing else, just the superlative brain cavity will tell you quite a lot.

Yeah, the intelligence.

Must have been very, very smart with a brain that big.

You can probably reconstruct some of the behavior, a lot of the behavior, social behavior, a lot of the stuff.

And you're going to see stuff like, you know, it's the famous one of, I think it was a Neanderthal,

there was a famous question of like, you know, at what point do you think society exists?

And it may have been one of the leakies, but the answer was basically this skeleton, because it was someone with a really, like a properly busted leg and then it fully healed.

And it's like, if that person was on their own,

just dead someone had to look after them for months to get that level of healing you only do that to someone you're really devoted to and probably a group of people because even one person can't look after one other person in right so that's your society and yeah you think about the the pathology of skeletons in the human race how you know how many of us have broken a bone

Most adults have probably broken a couple of bones, even if it's just a finger or a nose or something.

But then you think about what medicine has done and you would be able to see treatments of complete compound fractures of guys who survived horrific car crashes and treatments of cancer, bone cancers and stuff like that.