Need for a ‘new paradigm’ in bird evolution

by Michael Matthews

13 March 2003

Under a barrage of attacks from creationists, Scientific American has published a 10-page cover story admitting the need to abandon old dogmas about dinosaur-to-bird evolution. They just don’t work.

Instead, in a surprising article entitled ‘Which came first, the feather or the bird?’ (by Richard Prum and Alan Brush, March 2003, pp. 84–93), the authors propose a ‘new paradigm’ to help answer the vexing questions about bird evolution.

But before we look more closely at this ‘new paradigm,’ it’s interesting to look at how the article dismisses the old arguments, while skimming over other inherent flaws in their theory that still plague them.

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