Response to formal comment on Myhrvold (2016) submitted by Griebeler and Werner (2017).

摘要: Griebeler and Werner offer a formal comment on Myhrvold, 2016 defending the conclusions of Griebeler, 2014. Although criticizes several aspects methodology in 2016, all three papers concur key conclusion: metabolism extant endotherms ectotherms cannot be reliably classified using growth-rate allometry, because growth rates overlap. A point disagreement is that 2014 paper concluded despite this general case, one can nevertheless classify dinosaurs as from their rate allometry. The conclusion based two factors: assertion (made without any supporting arguments) comparison with must restricted only to sauropsids, ignoring other vertebrate groups, sauropsid endotherm ectotherm data set studied work do not presents first arguments support restriction proposition. In response I show unsupported by established principles phylogenetic comparison. addition, does overlap, visible its figures. explain how either effectively invalidates paper. also address methodological criticisms Myhrvold find them unsupported.