학술논문

ARE CURRENT CRITIQUES OF THE THEROPOD ORIGIN OF BIRDS SCIENCE? REBUTTAL TO FEDUCCIA (2002).
Document Type
Article
Source
Auk (American Ornithologists Union). Apr2003, Vol. 120 Issue 2, p550-561. 12p. 1 Color Photograph, 3 Diagrams.
Subject
*ORNITHOLOGY
*BIRDS
*BIOLOGICAL evolution
*PHYLOGENY
*MORPHOLOGY
Language
ISSN
0004-8038
Abstract
Talks about the critiques of the essay "Perspectives in Ornithology" which focused on the theropod origin of birds. Discussion on basal archosaurs as origin of birds; Claim of a critique that phylogenetic systematics stands alone among the sciences; Comment on a critique's dogmatic belief in rampant evolutionary convergence in morphology.