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Bone tissue histology of the Early Cretaceous bird Yanornis: evidence for a diphyletic origin of modern avian growth strategies within Ornithuromorpha

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Evolutionary parallelisms of pectoral and pelvic network-anatomy from fins to limbs

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First use of anatomical networks to study modularity and integration of heads, forelimbs and hindlimbs in abnormal anencephalic and cyclopic vs normal human development

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Evolution of the vomer and its implications for cranial kinesis in Paraves

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Anatomical network analysis of the musculoskeletal system reveals integration loss and parcellation boost during the fins-to-limbs transition

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Complete Ichthyornis skull illuminates mosaic assembly of the avian head

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Primate modularity and evolution: first anatomical network analysis of primate head and neck musculoskeletal system

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The oldest Archaeopteryx (Theropoda: Avialiae): a new specimen from the Kimmeridgian/Tithonian boundary of Schamhaupten, Bavaria

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Dinosaur ossification centres in embryonic birds uncover developmental evolution of the skull

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Challenges in identifying and interpreting organizational modules in morphology

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Insight into the growth pattern and bone fusion of basal birds from an Early Cretaceous enantiornithine bird

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Ontogeny and the fossil record: what, if anything, is an adult dinosaur?

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How to Make a Bird Skull: Major Transitions in the Evolution of the Avian Cranium, Paedomorphosis, and the Beak as a Surrogate Hand

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Fusion Patterns in the Skulls of Modern Archosaurs Reveal That Sutures Are Ambiguous Maturity Indicators for the Dinosauria

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Cranial ontogenetic variation in early saurischians and the role of heterochrony in the diversification of predatory dinosaurs

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A molecular mechanism for the origin of a key evolutionary innovation, the bird beak and palate, revealed by an integrative approach to major transitions in vertebrate history

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Validation experiments on finite element models of an ostrich (Struthio camelus) cranium

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Global Distribution and Conservation of Evolutionary Distinctness in Birds

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Ward’s Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering Method: Which Algorithms Implement Ward’s Criterion?

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Rates of Dinosaur Body Mass Evolution Indicate 170 Million Years of Sustained Ecological Innovation on the Avian Stem Lineage

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Random Loss and Selective Fusion of Bones Originate Morphological Complexity Trends in Tetrapod Skull Networks

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New observations on the skull of Archaeopteryx

(2013) Oliver W. M. Rauhut   Palaeontologische Zeitschrift

A Review of Dromaeosaurid Systematics and Paravian Phylogeny

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The global diversity of birds in space and time

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Birds have paedomorphic dinosaur skulls

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Evidence for taphonomic size bias in the Dinosaur Park Formation (Campanian, Alberta), a model Mesozoic terrestrial alluvial‐paralic system

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Exceptionally preserved juvenile megalosauroid theropod dinosaur with filamentous integument from the Late Jurassic of Germany

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PHYLOGENETIC VERSUS FUNCTIONAL SIGNALS IN THE EVOLUTION OF FORM-FUNCTION RELATIONSHIPS IN TERRESTRIAL VISION

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MOSAIC HETEROCHRONY AND EVOLUTIONARY MODULARITY: THE TRILOBITE GENUS ZACANTHOPSIS AS A CASE STUDY

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A revision of enantiornithine (Aves: Ornithothoraces) skull morphology

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Cranial osteology of a juvenile specimen ofTarbosaurus bataar(Theropoda, Tyrannosauridae) from the Nemegt Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Bugin Tsav, Mongolia

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Finding Statistically Significant Communities in Networks

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Nocturnality in Dinosaurs Inferred from Scleral Ring and Orbit Morphology

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(2011) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Mechanical stress, fracture risk and beak evolution in Darwin's ground finches (Geospiza)

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The Perinate Skull of Byronosaurus (Troodontidae) with Observations on the Cranial Ontogeny of Paravian Theropods

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Was Dinosaurian Physiology Inherited by Birds? Reconciling Slow Growth in Archaeopteryx

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Developmental palaeontology of Reptilia as revealed by histological studies

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A Phylogenomic Study of Birds Reveals Their Evolutionary History

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