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Article: TAKING WING: ARCHAEOPTERYX AND THE EVOLUTION OF BIRD FLIGHT.(Review)

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TAKING WING: ARCHAEOPTERYX AND THE EVOLUTION OF BIRD FLIGHT. By Pat Shipman. Simon and Schuster, New York, New York. 1998: 336 PP., 77 numbered text figs., bibliography, index. $25.00 (hardbound).--This is a book that should be of value to all ornithologists, paleontologists, evolutionists, and indeed anyone who is just plain interested in fossils and how scientific ideas are formulated, re-formulated, argued, and reargued over and over again, as new evidence emerges and old data is reevaluated. The story of Archaeopteryx is a timeless classic.

Written for a general audience, TAKING WING is definitely a good read. The book opens with a fascinating description of ...

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