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Embryos of Living Dinosaurs

Interpreting and Resoliving Developmental Evidence

Alexander O. Vargas Milne (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

350 Seiten

2026
CRC Press (Verlag)
978-1-138-03538-6 (ISBN)

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The dinosaur-bird transition has been intensively studied using both fossil and embryological evidence. In recent years, the notion that birds are living dinosaurs has become the mainstream opinion in paleontology. But some embryologists and ornithologists remain skeptical and accuse paleontologists of ignoring conflicting evidence. This book resolves these conflicts. Careful re-evaluation of those features in seeming contradiction reveal that such characteristics actually support and corroborate the mainstream view that birds are in fact members of a dinosaurian lineage - they are living dinosaurs.

Key Selling features:

Explores the evidence supporting the dinosaur ancestry of birds
Illustrates how fossil and developmental evidence can be integrated
Reviews the specific nature of putative conflicting evidence
Synthesizes and resolves different sources of evidence

Alexander Omar Vargas Milne was born 1977 in Auckland, New Zealand, but has lived most of his life in Santiago, Chile. He studied biology at the University of Chile, where he became interested in evolutionary developmental biology. For his PhD, he decided to study embryos of birds as a key to understand their evolution from dinosaurs. He carried out postdoctoral research at University of Wisconsin and Yale before founding in 2008 the Ontogeny and Phylogeny Lab at the University of Chile. Along with students and collaborators, he has made several contributions on the nascent topic of dinosaur-bird evo-devo. He has also contributed to the re-foundation of vertebrate paleontology in Chile.

Introduction. Why birds are dinosaurs: A primer for non-paleontologists. Complex evolution in wing digits. Controversial ankles with unexpected outcomes. Dinosaurian patterns and evolutionary reversion in the embryonic wrist. Lost and found: Bones in the skull of dinosaurs and birds. Unpalatable confusions (evo-devo of the dino-bird palate). From raft to keel (evo-devo of the dino-bird sternum). Experimental approaches to the dinosaur-bird transition. Evolutionary lessons

Erscheinungsdatum	14.04.2018
Zusatzinfo	50 Illustrations, color; 50 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zellbiologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Mineralogie / Paläontologie
ISBN-10	1-138-03538-6 / 1138035386
ISBN-13	978-1-138-03538-6 / 9781138035386
Zustand	Neuware