The 50th anniversary of a key paper on how bird flight evolved

• 成果类型: Editorial Material
• 署名作者: Padian, Kevin
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
• 刊物名称: Nature
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0028-5828
• DOI: 10.1038/d41586-024-00746-w
• 发表日期: 2024-03-28
• 页码: 738-740
• 关键词: evolution; origin

摘要

For a century, scientists pondered whether bird flight evolved by animals gliding down from trees or by creatures running and flapping from the ground up. A landmark 1974 paper reset the debate to focus on the evolution of the flight stroke instead.