Birds have paedomorphic dinosaur skulls

Bhart-Anjan S. Bhullar (), Jesús Marugán-Lobón, Fernando Racimo, Gabe S. Bever, Timothy B. Rowe, Mark A. Norell and Arhat Abzhanov ()
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Bhart-Anjan S. Bhullar: Harvard University, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Jesús Marugán-Lobón: Unidad de Paleontología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Fernando Racimo: Harvard University, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Gabe S. Bever: New York College of Osteopathic Medicine of New York Institute of Technology
Timothy B. Rowe: Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station C1100
Mark A. Norell: American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, New York 10024-5192, USA
Arhat Abzhanov: Harvard University, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA

Nature, 2012, vol. 487, issue 7406, 223-226

Abstract: The bird skull arose from the nonavian dinosaur skull by several episodes of paedomorphosis, in which descendants resemble the juveniles of their ancestors, according to a study of shape change during dinosaur ontogeny and phylogeny.

Date: 2012
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