{"product_id":"riddle-of-the-feathered-dragons-alan-feduccia-9780300205756","title":"Riddle of the Feathered Dragons: Hidden Birds of China","description":"\u003cp\u003eExamining 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdvocates 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alan Feduccia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300205759\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300205756\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/29\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.74h x 6.88w x 0.92d","brand":"Alan Feduccia","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46806933963007,"sku":"9780300205756","price":56.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f4e76af0-88d2-4f16-a0ee-3b40fad1e010.jpg?v=1745378107","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/riddle-of-the-feathered-dragons-alan-feduccia-9780300205756","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}