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The wings before the bird: an evaluation of flapping-based locomotory hypotheses in bird antecedents

Background: Powered flight is implicated as a major driver for the success of birds. Here we examine the effectiveness of three hypothesized pathways for the evolution of the flight stroke, the forelimb motion that powers aerial locomotion, in a terrestrial setting across a range of stem and basal a...

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Autores principales: Dececchi, T. Alexander, Larsson, Hans C.E., Habib, Michael B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4941780/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27441115
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2159