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Science
; 203(4384): 1021-2, 1979 Mar 09.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-17811125
ABSTRACT
Vanes in the primary flight feathers of Archaeopteryx conform to the asymmetric pattern in modern flying birds. The asymmetry has aerodynamic functions and can be assumed to have evolved in the selective context of flight.