The avian nature of the brain and inner ear of Archaeopteryx

Nature

Volumn 430, Issue 7000, 2004, Pages 666-669

  Domínguez Alonzo, Patricio ^a   Milner, Angela C ^b   Ketcham, Richard A ^c   Cookson, M John ^d   Rowe, Timothy B ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; NEUROLOGY; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

ARCHAEOPTERYX; STRUCTURAL ADAPTATION;

BIODIVERSITY;

BRAIN; FEATHER; FLIGHT; FOSSIL; JURASSIC; SENSORY SYSTEM; SKULL;

ADAPTATION; ARCHAEOPTERYX; ARTICLE; BIRD; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DINOSAUR; FLYING; FOREBRAIN; FORELIMB; HEARING; INNER EAR; JURASSIC; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM; VISION; ANIMAL; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKULL;

ALLOSAURUS; ARCHAEOPTERYX; AVES; COELUROSAURIA; DINOSAURIA; THEROPODA; VERTEBRATA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIRDS; BRAIN; DINOSAURS; EAR, INNER; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; FOSSILS; SKULL;

EID: 3943058916     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02706     Document Type: Article

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