@article{438682,
      recid = {438682},
      author = {Feduccia, Alan.},
      title = {Riddle of the feathered dragons hidden birds of China /  [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Yale University Press,},
      address = {New Haven :},
      pages = {1 online resource (ix, 358 p.) :},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {"Examining and interpreting recent spectacular fossil  discoveries in China, paleontologists have arrived at a  prevailing view: there is now incontrovertible evidence  that birds represent the last living dinosaur. But is this  conclusion beyond dispute? In this book, evolutionary  biologist Alan Feduccia provides the most comprehensive  discussion yet of the avian and associated evidence found  in China, then exposes the massive, unfounded speculation  that has accompanied these discoveries and been published  in the pages of prestigious scientific journals. Advocates  of the current orthodoxy on bird origins have ignored  contrary data, misinterpreted fossils, and used faulty  reasoning, the author argues. He considers why and how the  debate has become so polemical and makes a plea to refocus  the discussion by "breaking away from methodological  straitjackets and viewing the world of origins anew."  Drawing on a lifetime of study, he offers his own current  understanding of the origin of birds and avian flight"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/438682},
}