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Xing Xu (), Xiaoting Zheng and Hailu You
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Xing Xu: Key Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology & Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiaoting Zheng: Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature
Hailu You: Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences

Nature, 2010, vol. 468, issue 7320, E2-E2

Abstract: Abstract Replying to Richard O. Prum Nature 468, 10.1038/nature09480 Prum1 identifies the unusual feathers in the smaller Similicaudipteryx specimen as immature, and suggests that the different morphologies preserved in the smaller and larger specimens represent different growth stages of a single feather type rather than successive feather generations of different types. Although this new proposal is very interesting, we do not agree that it is better supported by the available data than our original interpretation2.

Date: 2010
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