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Birds and People: A Book Review

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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. Jonathan Elphick and John Fanshawe provided “specialist research” and support.” Eagles are national symbols of the U.S.,

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What happened with Archaeopteryx?

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You and your colleagues are experts on the history of France, Poland, Spain, all those European countries. And this is where the latest research related to Archaeopteryx comes in. The new research looks in detail at another fossil, Xiaotingia zhengi , which is not on the bird lineage, being one of those non-birds with bird like traits.

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