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With this lovely and informative volume, Alan Feduccia preserves
the pathbreaking work of Mark Catesby, the English naturalist and
illustrator who founded natural history and bird art in America.
First published by UNC Press in 1985, the book features all 109
bird illustrations, 20 color plates, and the entire text from
Catesby's pioneering "Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the
Bahamas." Annotating Catesby's writings from a modern perspective,
Feduccia discusses the perception of each species during the
Colonial period, comments on its habits, and compares Catesby's
observations with those of such other early naturalists as John
White, John Lawson, Alexander Wilson, and John James Audubon.
Examining and interpreting recent spectacular fossil discoveries in
China, paleontologists have arrived at a prevailing view: there is
now incontrovertible evidence that birds represent the last living
dinosaur. But is this conclusion beyond dispute? In this book,
evolutionary biologist Alan Feduccia provides the most
comprehensive discussion yet of the avian and associated evidence
found in China, then exposes the massive, unfounded speculation
that has accompanied these discoveries and been published in the
pages of prestigious scientific journals. Advocates of the current
orthodoxy on bird origins have ignored contrary data,
misinterpreted fossils, and used faulty reasoning, the author
argues. He considers why and how the debate has become so polemical
and makes a plea to refocus the discussion by "breaking away from
methodological straitjackets and viewing the world of origins
anew." Drawing on a lifetime of study, he offers his own current
understanding of the origin of birds and avian flight.
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