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Birds and People: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

It’s relatively easy to classify birds into family groups based on physical characteristics. We sing about them, we paint them, we use them as mythic and poetic symbols for our spiritual and emotional feelings, we wear them in myriad and often colorful ways, we adopt them as household pets. Eagles are national symbols of the U.S.,

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What happened with Archaeopteryx?

10,000 Birds

You and your colleagues are experts on the history of France, Poland, Spain, all those European countries. This has happened before, Archaeopteryx and the bird family tree have had an often tenuous relationship. Imagine you study history. That’s what Archaeopteryx is. In fact, you have to get downright cladistic.

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