The Open Ornithology Journal

2016, 9 : 14-38
Published online 2016 April 30. DOI: 10.2174/1874453201609010014
Publisher ID: TOOENIJ-9-14

RESEARCH ARTICLE
 FANTASY REALITY: A Critique of Smith 's Bird Origins

Alan Feduccia, *
Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3280, United States of America

* Address correspondence to this author at the Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3280, United States of America; E-mail: feduccia@bio.unc.edu

ABSTRACT

Keywords:

Bird origins, cladistic, flight origins, maniraptoran, phylogenomics, theropod.