Un enfoque integrador para comprender los orígenes de las aves

Xing Xu1, Zhonghe Zhou2, Robert Dudley3

  • 1Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100044, PR China. xu.xing@ivpp.ac.cn.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|December 16, 2014
PubMed
Resumen

Las aves evolucionaron de los dinosaurios terópodos maniraptoranos, con rasgos clave de las aves como las plumas y el vuelo que se originaron en los dinosaurios terrestres del Mesozoico. Esta transición evolutiva está bien documentada a través de la evidencia fósil y la investigación integrada.

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