Alan Feduccia

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Alan Feduccia is affiliated with the following schools: University of Michigan, Louisiana State University, Southern Methodist University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Biology

#1149

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#1959

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#594

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Paleontology

#81

World Rank

#128

Historical Rank

#45

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Zoology

#249

World Rank

#626

Historical Rank

#84

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According to Wikipedia, John Alan Feduccia is a paleornithologist specializing in the origins and phylogeny of birds. He is S. K. Heninger Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina. Feduccia's authored works include three major books, The Age of Birds, The Origin and Evolution of Birds, Riddle of the Feathered Dragons, and many peer-reviewed papers in ornithological and biological journals.

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Alan Feduccia's Published Works

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The origin and evolution of birds (1996) (639)
Explosive Evolution in Tertiary Birds and Mammals (1995) (276)
Evidence from Claw Geometry Indicating Arboreal Habits of Archaeopteryx (1993) (145)
A beaked bird from the Jurassic of China (1995) (144)
Early Adaptive Radiation of Birds: Evidence from Fossils from Northeastern China (1996) (138)
‘Big bang’ for tertiary birds? (2003) (130)
Developmental Patterns and the Identification of Homologies in the Avian Hand (1997) (125)
Presbyornis and the origin of the Anseriformes (Aves, Charadriomorphae) (1980) (111)
Feathers of Archaeopteryx: Asymmetric Vanes Indicate Aerodynamic Function (1979) (110)
A diapsid skull in a new species of the primitive bird Confuciusornis (1999) (94)
Coherent High-and Low-Latitude Climate Variability During the Holocene Warm Period (86)
SEXUAL DIMORPHISM IN SKATES (RAJIDAE) AND ITS POSSIBLE ROLE IN DIFFERENTIAL NICHE UTILIZATION (1974) (75)
A new Chinese specimen indicates that ‘protofeathers’ in the Early Cretaceous theropod dinosaur Sinosauropteryx are degraded collagen fibres (2007) (72)
Do feathered dinosaurs exist? Testing the hypothesis on neontological and paleontological evidence (2005) (69)
Flight capability and the pectoral girdle of Archaeopteryx (1979) (63)
Nonavian feathers in a late Triassic archosaur. (2000) (63)
Early Pleistocene pre-glacial and glacial rocks and faunas of north-central Nebraska. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 148, article 1 (1972) (59)
Confuciusornis sanctus Compared to Archaeopteryx lithographica (1998) (58)
The hand of birds revealed by early ostrich embryos (2002) (57)
Bird Origins Anew (2013) (46)
A Model for the Evolution of Perching Birds (1977) (43)
DINOSAURS AS REPTILES (1973) (36)
Oscine Spermatozoa: A Light- and Electron-Microscopy Study (1978) (34)
A Comparative Study of the Egg-White Proteins of Passerine Birds Charles G. Sibley A Comparative Study of the Egg-White Proteins of Non-Passerine Birds Charles G. Sibley Jon E. Ahlquist (1973) (33)
Birds are Dinosaurs: Simple Answer to a Complex Problem (2002) (32)
1,2,3 = 2,3,4: accommodating the cladogram. (1999) (29)
Tree climbing – a fundamental avian adaptation (2011) (28)
Avian extinction at the end of the Cretaceous: Assessing the magnitude and subsequent explosive radiation (2014) (26)
Presbyornis and the Evolution of Ducks and Flamingos (1978) (21)
Jurassic archosaur is a non-dinosaurian bird (2014) (20)
Testing the neoflightless hypothesis: propatagium reveals flying ancestry of oviraptorosaurs (2015) (20)
A flamingolike wader from the Eocene of Wyoming (1974) (19)
Riddle of the Feathered Dragons: Hidden Birds of China (2012) (18)
Aerodynamic Model for the Early Evolution of Feathers Provided by Propithecus (Primates, Lemuridae) (1993) (16)
Gravity-defying Behaviors: Identifying Models for Protoaves1 (2000) (15)
Tenectomy of the Supracoracoideus Muscle to Deflight Pigeons (Columba livia) and Cockatiels (Nymphicus hollandicus) (2001) (15)
Birdlike characters in the Triassic archosaurMegalancosaurus (1993) (14)
An Old World occurrence of the Eocene avian family Primobucconidae (1979) (13)
The whalebill is a stork (1977) (13)
A Preliminary Report on a Nesting Colony of Eocene Birds (1973) (13)
PERSPECTIVES IN ORNITHOLOGY ARCHAEOPTERYX 2007: QUO VADIS? (2007) (13)
Theropod-bird link reconsidered (1998) (13)
A new Eocene Zygodactyl bird (1973) (12)
Hypothetical stages in the evolution of modern ducks and flamingos. (1977) (12)
Mesozoic aviary takes form. (2006) (11)
A petrel-like bird from the late Eocene of Louisiana: earliest record for the order procellariiformes (1993) (11)
OSTEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR SHOREBIRD AFFINITIES OF THE FLAMINGOS (2003) (10)
THE PLIOCENE RAILS OF NORTH AMERICA (1968) (9)
A thick knee (Aves: Burhinidae) from the Pleistocene of North America, and its bearing on ice age climates (1980) (8)
The scapulocoracoid of flightless birds: a primitive avian character similar to that of theropods (2008) (8)
Digit homology of birds and dinosaurs: accommodating the cladogram. (2001) (7)
The problem of bird origins and early avian evolution (2001) (7)
ENDOTHERMY, DINOSAURS, AND ARCHAEOPTERYX (1974) (7)
FANTASY VS REALITY: A Critique of Smith et al.'s Bird Origins (2016) (6)
Is it a bird? Is it a dinosaur? (2012) (6)
A Late Miocene Accipitrid (Aves: Accipitriformes) from Nebraska and Its Implications for the Divergence of Old World Vultures (2012) (6)
Bird origins: problem solved, but the debate continues… (2003) (5)
Pseudo-homeosis in avian feet. (2002) (5)
Dinosaurs of the Air: The Evolution and Loss of Flight in Dinosaurs and Birds (2003) (4)
The Phylogeny Of Perching Birds (1979) (4)
Two woodpeckers from the late Pliocene of North America (1987) (3)
Palaeoecology (Communication arising): Fossils and avian evolution (2001) (3)
Cretaceous avian crops reveal dietary secrets and pose evolutionary questions (2011) (3)
Trumpeter Swan ( Cygnus buccinator ) from the Pleistocene of Utah (1986) (3)
Miocene hawk converges on Secretarybird (2008) (3)
Riddle of the Feathered Dragons (2017) (2)
A colorful mesozoic menagerie (2009) (2)
VARIATION IN THE POSTERIOR BORDER OF THE STERNUM IN SOME TREE-TRUNK FORAGING BIRDS (2002) (2)
Fossil Birds from the Late Pleistocene Ingleside Fauna, San Patricio County, Texas (1973) (2)
Cretaceous Reverie: Review of Birds of Stone: Chinese Avian Fossils from the Age of Dinosaurs by Luis M. Chiappe and Meng Qingjin1 (2018) (1)
Response to Dyke, and van Tuinen et al.: ‘Big bang’ for Tertiary birds? (2003) (1)
Morphology of the bony stapes columella in owls evolutionary implications (1978) (1)
Commentary 1 , 2 , 3 5 2 , 3 , 4 : Accommodating the cladogram (1999) (1)
The Pleistocene Avifauna of Klein Cave, Kerr County, Texas (1972) (1)
Cenozoic Birds (1981) (1)
Professor Hibbard's fossil birds (1975) (1)
Contextualizing avian origins and evolutionHow Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals About Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity Douglas J. Futuyma Princeton University Press, 2021. 320 pp. (2021) (0)
IN MEMORY OF CYRIL A. WALKER Tree climbing - a fundamental avian adaptation (2010) (0)
Response to Mayr and Peters (2007) (0)
Ancient Aviary, Featherweight Phylogeny@@@The Origin and Evolution of Birds. (1997) (0)
In Memoriam: Larry Dean Martin, 1943–2013 (2013) (0)
Mesozoic Birds: Above the Heads of Dinosaurs.Edited byLuis M Chiappeand, Lawrence M Witmer.Berkeley (California): University of California Press. $95.00. xii + 520 p; ill.; index. ISBN: 0–520–20094–2. 2002. (2003) (0)
MARK CATESBY'S NATURAL HISTORY OF AMERICA: THE WATERCOLORS FROM THE ROYAL LIBRARY WINDSOR CASTLE (2000) (0)
Testing the neoflightless hypothesis: propatagium reveals flying ancestry of oviraptorosaurs (2015) (0)
Extinct new zealanders. (1991) (0)
Title : New Insight into the Morphology and Physiology of Mesozoic Archosaurs (2012) (0)
The Daily Cycle of Wintering Sissor-Tailed Flycatchers in the San Jose Area of Costa Rica (1972) (0)
Book reviews (2013) (0)
Nesting Dinosaur (1996) (0)
Bird Flight Origins (2016) (0)

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