Re: help: reptile scale to bird feathers

["Phil Donoghue" <DONOGHUE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Re: evolution of feathers

I guess that the classic papers on this subject are:

Maderson, P. F. A. 1972. On how an archosaurian scale might have 
given rise to an avian feather. The American Naturalist 106, 424-428.

Maderson, P. F. A. 1972. When? why? and how?: some speculations on 
the evolution of the vertebrate integument. Amewrican Zoologist, 12, 
159-171.

McGowan, C. 1989. Feather structure in flightless birds and its 
bearing on the question of the origin of feathers. Journal of Zoology 
(London) 218, 537-547.

Regal, P. J. 1975. The evolutionary origin of feathers. Quart. Rev. 
Biol. 50, 35-66.

That should be enough for a lecture, but I guess that there is a lot 
more recent stuff out there.

Best wishes,

Phil.


Dr. Philip Donoghue
School of Earth Sciences
University of Birmingham
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