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The origin and evolution of birds
- A. Feduccia
- Biology
- 1996
This text is a comprehensive and illustrated discussion of the origin of birds and of avian flight. Ornithologist and evolutionary biologist Alan Feduccia, author of "Age of Birds," here draws on… Expand
Coherent High-and Low-Latitude Climate Variability During the Holocene Warm Period
- T. Jones, J. Ruben, +6 authors V. Alifanov
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Explosive Evolution in Tertiary Birds and Mammals
- A. Feduccia
- Biology, Medicine
- Science
- 3 February 1995
The traditional view of avian evolution over the past century is that of sluggish gradualism, in which many living orders of birds are thought to have originated from the mid-Cretaceous or so (1),… Expand
‘Big bang’ for tertiary birds?
- A. Feduccia
- Geography
- 1 April 2003
Abstract The early evolution of living birds has been sharply debated, with two disparate interpretations. Molecular-clock studies consistently date the emergence of modern bird orders at ∼100… Expand
Evidence from Claw Geometry Indicating Arboreal Habits of Archaeopteryx
- A. Feduccia
- Biology, Medicine
- Science
- 5 February 1993
The Late Jurassic Archaeopteryx has been thought to have been a feathered predator adapted to running that represented a terrestrial stage in the evolution of true birds from coelurosaurian… Expand
Developmental Patterns and the Identification of Homologies in the Avian Hand
- A. Burke, A. Feduccia
- Biology
- 24 October 1997
Homologies of digits in the avian hand have been debated for 150 years. Cladistic analysis nests birds with theropod dinosaurs. Theropod hands retain only digits I-II-III, so digits of the modern… Expand
Presbyornis and the origin of the Anseriformes (Aves, Charadriomorphae)
- S. Olson, A. Feduccia
- Geography
- 1980
Olson, Storrs L., and Alan Feduccia. Presbyornis and the Origin of the Anseriformes (Aves: Charadriomorphae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, number 323, 24 pages, 15 figures, 1980.•Evidence… Expand
Early Pleistocene pre-glacial and glacial rocks and faunas of north-central Nebraska. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 148, article 1
- M. F. Skinner, C. W. Hibbard, +5 authors P. Rich
- Geology
- 1972
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Early Adaptive Radiation of Birds: Evidence from Fossils from Northeastern China
- L. Hou, L. Martín, Z. Zhou, A. Feduccia
- Geography, Medicine
- Science
- 15 November 1996
Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous birds from northeastern China, including many complete skeletons of Confuciusornis, provide evidence for a fundamental dichotomy in the class Aves that may antedate… Expand
A new Chinese specimen indicates that ‘protofeathers’ in the Early Cretaceous theropod dinosaur Sinosauropteryx are degraded collagen fibres
- T. Lingham-Soliar, A. Feduccia, X. Wang
- Biology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological…
- 7 August 2007
Alleged primitive feathers or protofeathers in the theropod dinosaur Sinosauropteryx have potentially profound implications concerning feather morphogenesis, evolution of flight, dinosaur physiology… Expand
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