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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 14 Oct 2018
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    How come in general evolutionary ancestors of most living species were bigger? Megalodon > sharks Sabre tooth etc > lions, tigers Prehistoric birds > modern birds Mammoths > elephants Ancient crocodiles > modern Moore’s law of evolved design miniaturization?

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      2. Bandeauxx.‏ @bandeauxx 14 Oct 2018
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        Efficiency. Environmental adaptations?

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 14 Oct 2018
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        Those are tautological.

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      2. Daniel Keller  🕳‏ @DnlKlr 14 Oct 2018
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        Blue whale is biggest animal ever?

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 14 Oct 2018
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        Ocean and island animals are considered exceptions iirc. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-sea_gigantism …

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      1. Vikram Hegde‏ @vikramhegde 14 Oct 2018
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        One (or some) ancestor were larger. Plenty versions were smaller as well. Evolutionary optimization if you will. But then again who's to say the present ones are the final version?

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      2. Dandy Roddick‏ @Dandy_Roddick 14 Oct 2018
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        Fossil survivorship bias

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 14 Oct 2018
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        That doesn’t affect max size inference. It’s obvious that the largest big cats in the past were larger than the largest ones today, regardless of smaller ones whose fossils didn’t survive for eg

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      1. no longer updating this‏ @gatola_j 14 Oct 2018
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        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megafauna 

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      2. John Bissell‏ @bysl 14 Oct 2018
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        Seems more like survivor bias: bigger animals are more likely to fossilize and/or we like to talk about them more.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 14 Oct 2018
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        Doesn’t affect the maximum limit size though

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