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Cladistics and the Origin of Birds:
A Review and Two New Analyses - PDF file
Frances C. James and John A. Pourtless IV, Ornithological Monographs, Volume (2009), No.66
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Do Feathered Dinosaurs Exist? Testing the Hypothesis on
Neontological and Paleontological Evidence - PDF file
Alan Feduccia, Theagarten Lingham-Soliar and J. Richard Hinchliffe, Journal of Morphology, Vol. 266, No. 2, November 2005
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Feathers: What's flight got to do - got to do with it?
Steve Hunter, Grand PooPaa of the National Center for the Study of Cladistic Existentialism
Additional reading on the subject of feathers (in the form of PDF files) is provided at the end of this essay.
1,2,3 = 2,3,4: Accommodating the cladogram - PDF file
Alan Feduccia, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Vol. 96, April 1999
Giving Birds the Finger
Steve Hunter, Grand PooPaa of the National Center for the Study of Cladistic Existentialism
Additional reading on the subject of bird digit identity (in the form of PDF files) is provided at the end of this essay.
Let Your Fingers Do the Shifting ..... - an update to "Giving Birds The Finger"
Steve Hunter, Grand PooPaa of the National Center for the Study of Cladistic Existentialism
Birds are Dinosaurs: Simple Answer to a Complex Problem - PDF file
Alan Feduccia, The Auk, 119(4):1187-1201,2002
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