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Science 14 March 2003:
Vol. 299. no. 5613, pp. 1664 - 1665
DOI: 10.1126/science.1081618
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VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY:
Millennial Status Report As Debate Wanes

A review by Bradley C. Livezey

Mesozoic Birds Above the Heads of Dinosaurs
Luis M. Chiappe and Lawrence M. Witmer, Eds.
University of California Press, Berkeley, 2002. 532 pp. $95, £66. ISBN 0-520-20094-2.

Covering a wide variety of aspects of the nature and evolution of birds during the Mesozoic, the contributors discuss topics including the origin, phylogeny, functional transformations, and morphological diversity of the clade through its first 85 million years.
The author is from the Section of Birds, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. E-mail: livezeyb{at}carnegiemuseums.org

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