Embryos of Living Dinosaurs : Interpreting and Resoliving Developmental Evidence (Hardcover)

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