Thomas Henry Huxley and the kinship between dinosaurs and birds
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-9020.intelligere.2021.185719Keywords:
History of Paleontology, Thomas Henry Huxley, Archeopteryx, Compsognathus, Bird EvolutionAbstract
This work consists of a translation of the article “On the Animals which are most nearly intermediate between Birds and the Reptiles” by Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), initially published in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History in February 1868. In this text, Huxley addressed the hypothesis of an evolutionary relationship between reptiles and birds after observing several similarities between two important fossils belonging to these groups: Compsognathus and Archeopteryx. Despite the evidence pointed out by Huxley and other researchers, the hypothesis that birds descended from dinosaurs lost strength in the 1920s, coming back only in the 1970s. Since then, it is a consensus in the scientific community.
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