The role of fossils in dating the tree of life has been misunderstood. Fossils can provide
good “minimum” age estimates for branches in the tree, but “maximum” constraints on those …

In studies of the evolution of avian flight there has been a singular preoccupation with
unravelling its origin. By contrast, the complex changes in morphology that occurred …

Dating the tree of life is a core endeavor in evolutionary biology. Rates of evolution are
fundamental to nearly every evolutionary model and process. Rates need dates. There is …

Vertebrate palaeontology is a lively field, with new discoveries reported every week... and
not only dinosaurs! This new edition reflects the international scope of vertebrate …

The first edition of this book was written at a time when comprehensive analyses of
molecular sequence data just began to provide a robust framework for the interrelationships …

The phylogeny and divergence timing of the Neoavian radiation remain controversial
despite recent progress. We analyzed the genomes of 124 species across all Neoavian …

In recent years, avian systematics has been characterized by a diminished reliance on
morphological cladistics of modern taxa, intensive palaeornithogical research stimulated by …

Abstract Long-standing controversy,,,,,,,, surrounds the question of whether living bird
lineages emerged after non-avian dinosaur extinction at the Cretaceous/Tertiary (K/T) …

The effect of the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg)(formerly Cretaceous–Tertiary, K–T) mass
extinction on avian evolution is debated, primarily because of the poor fossil record of Late …

Testing models of macroevolution, and especially the sufficiency of microevolutionary
processes, requires good collaboration between molecular biologists and paleontologists …