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Re: Feduccia



John Noble Wilford reviewed Shipman 1998, Dingus & Rowe 1997, and Chatterjee
1997 in The New York Times Book Review of Jan. 25, 1998, pages 8-9. The same
trio was treated by Sanz, Pérez-Moreno and Poyato-Ariza in Nature, vol. 393
(May 7, 1998), pp. 32-33.No Feduccia here, though.

Ilja Nieuwland

----- Original Message -----
From: chris brochu <cbrochu@fmppr.fmnh.org>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Monday, December 13, 1999 6:28 PM
Subject: Re: Feduccia


> Something you might want to think about, though it involves much more
> work, is reviewing the various origins-of-birds books that have come out
> over the past three or four years simultaneously.  This would include
> Chatterjee's *Rise of Birds*, Shipman's *Taking Wing*, and Dingus and
> Rowe's *Mistaken Extinction*.  I've seen several reviews of Feduccia's
> book (first edition), but no review that considers all of these books at
> once.  They all have strengths and weaknesses, and the lay reader
> interested in the subject should not just read Feduccia.
>
>
> chris
>
>
> Adrian Thomas wrote:
> >
> > I've been asked to review the second edition of "The origin and
evolution of
> > birds" by Alan Feduccia, I thought it might be amusing to canvas opinion
> > from the list....What do you think?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Adrian
>
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