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SUBMITTER: Puttick MN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4289940 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Puttick Mark N MN Thomas Gavin H GH Benton Michael J MJ
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution 20140223 5
The origin of birds (Aves) is one of the great evolutionary transitions. Fossils show that many unique morphological features of modern birds, such as feathers, reduction in body size, and the semilunate carpal, long preceded the origin of clade Aves, but some may be unique to Aves, such as relative elongation of the forelimb. We study the evolution of body size and forelimb length across the phylogeny of coelurosaurian theropods and Mesozoic Aves. Using recently developed phylogenetic comparati ...[more]