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Once More About Origin of Birds and Flight: “Cursorial” or “Arboreal”?

Year: 2007

Type: article

Abstract: Despite the long-time history of studies of origin and early evolution of the birds, some issues remain open. One of them is the evolutional reasons for the hallux reversion in the bird foot. Some functional sequences of such hallux orientation and its possible importance in evolution of birds are shown. In our opinion, the functional universalism of the anisodactyl foot with well-developed, low placed and opposable hallux allows to unit, in certain sense, the theories of “arboreal” and “terrestrial” origin of birds and flight.

Source: The scientific electronic library of periodicals of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)

Author: A.I. Bogdanovich

Language: English

Topic: Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology

Subfield: Paleontology

Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W3163607201

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