RE: When New Met Papers

[Marco Auditore <maaudito@tin.it>]

At 17.35 27/12/2007 -0600, you wrote:

> Dawid Mazurek wrote:
> > An intermade stage from scales to feathers? :o
> :o indeed!  This heterodox hypothesis has come up before.  It proposes 
> that the elongated, ribbon-like rectrices of certain primitive birds 
> reperesent an intermediate stage in feather evolution.  The alternative 
> hypothesis (which is much better supported) holds that this particular 
> feather morphology is highly derived, and has nothing to do with the 
> origin of feathers, or of flight.  It might help to add that the 
> _Paraprotopteryx_ paper cites Feduccia's _The Origin and Evolution of 
> Birds_ in support of the former hypothesis.

Somene can provide a pdf copy even to me, please?

Many thanks!
Marco

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