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Article: Feathered Dinosaurs: The Origin of Birds.(Book review)

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FEATHERED DINOSAURS: THE ORIGIN OF BIRDS. By John Long and Peter Schouten. Oxford University Press, New York, USA. 2008: 193 + xii pages and over 80 colored plates. ISBN: 978-0-1953-72663. $39.95 (cloth).--The title is a bit misleading, because not all theropod dinosaurs featured are known to have been feathered. There is relatively little discussion of the origin of birds and none on the origin of feathers, which is a great story recently illuminated by evidence from fossils and evolutionary developmental biology and genetics. However, there is still much to learn from this well-written and imaginatively illustrated book. Australian paleontologist John Long is a ...

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