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Home , Alan Feduccia, Ornithology, The Origin of Birds

Brevum Curriculum Vitae - (2013)

Position: S. K. Heninger Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of , University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

Education: Ph.D. , l969 (NSF Predoctoral Fellow) M.A. Zoology University of Michigan, l966 B.S. Zoology Louisiana State University, l965 (pdf of 2008 museum article attached).

Languages: French, Spanish, Italian (conversational).

S. K. Heninger Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina, July, 1994-2007. Chairman, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, July 1997-2002. Chairman, Division of Natural Sciences, UNC, 1996-1997; resigned to become Chair. Associate Chairman, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, July, l982 - 1992. Research Associate, Department of , Smithsonian Institution, 1978- 1987. Assistant, Associate, Full Professor, UNC, 1971-74, 1974-79,1979-present. Assistant Professor of Biology, SMU,1970-71. Lecturer, University of Michigan,1969.

Fellow, American Ornithologists’ Union,1976. Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science,1994. Who’s Who in America, 2004.

Naming Recognition:

-Presbyorniformipes feduccii, 1995, -like webbed trackway () named for Alan Feduccia who identified the trackmaker.

- feducciai, 2009, new of 120-million-year-old, earliest beaked (below), named by Chinese , for Alan Feduccia “for his contributions to his study of the origin and of .”

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-Feducciavis loftini, 2011, , named by Smithsonian , for Alan Feduccia, for “his many contributions to the study of fossil birds and his dedication to truth in the search for bird origins.”

- Alan Feduccia Distinguished Professorship, established by the University of North Carolina College of Arts and Sciences. 2008.

Teaching and Lectures: College Lights Lecturer, fall,1997. Favorite Faculty Award, Senior of 1997. Selected as a Carolina Speaker,1998-present. Who’s Who Among America’s Favorite Teachers,1998. Invitee: Renaissance Weekend, 1996- present. Member, Oxford Round Table, Oxford University.

Discover, Top 50 science stories, 1993, 1996; Science News, News of the Year,1995. Discover: Profile, Scientist of the Month, February 2003 (NPR, All Things Considered. Interview on ‘Origins of Flight’ by John Nielsen, Jan. 2003).

Notable service:

-Board of Governors, UNC Press, 1998-2006. -Board of Directors, UNC Arts and Sciences Foundation, 2000-2007 (Founding member, 1983-84). -Board of Trustees, NC Botanical Garden, 1997-2002. -Chair, UNC Genome Sciences Building Design Committee, 1999-2003 (gained initial approval for building; 128,000 sq.ft. building completed Oct., 2012 (120 million dollars). [http://genomics.unc.edu/events/gsbSymp/]. -Member, Committee for Endowed Chairs, 1986-1987. -Member, Committee on a Space for Science, 1996-2000.

2 -Member, College Planning Committee, Division of Basic and Applied Science, 1996. -Dean’s Advisory Committee (elected to two 2-yr. terms,1998-2002). -Member, UNC Provost & Executive Vice Chancellor Search Committee, 1999-2000. -Member, Review Committee, Program in and , 2003. -Chair, Committee to Review the Dean of the School of Medicine, 2001. -Faculty Advisor, Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, 1989-1992. -Consultant for Hiring, Tenure and Promotion: Harvard, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Duke, Smithsonian Institution, Kansas, Clemson, LSU, University of Florida, etc. -Member, Curriculum. -Member, Board of Directors, Organization for Tropical Studies, 1973-74. -Member, Curriculum Review Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, 1987-1990. -Member, Administrative Board, College of Arts and Sciences, 1987-90. -Member, Subcommittee on General Education, College of Arts and Sciences, 1989-90. -Member, Appeals Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, 1989-90. -Member, School of Medicine Curriculum Review Committee, 1982-83.

30 invited lectures, 1996-2003: including, Duke University, Univ. of New Mexico (2 lectures), NC State University, Texas A & M University (Honors Day), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Geology); University of Kansas, Cornell University Laboratory of , University of Georgia (State of the Art Series on “Origins”), Georgia College and State University, University of Michigan (Tinkle Memorial Lecture), Michigan State University, Lehigh University (Honors Day Lecture), Appalachian State University (Annual Sigma Xi Banquet lecture), Guilford College, UNC Greensboro; New Bern, NC, Rothermel Foundation (evolution/creation debate), Old Dominian University (Darwin Day Lecture), Linnaean Society of New York (annual banquet lecture 1997), Louisiana State University 1998 (two lectures), Clemson University, Plenary lecture for Society for Avian and Evolution, Beijing, 2000, Plenary lecture for 150th Anniversary Meeting of the German Ornithological Society, 2000, Watkins Distinguished Lecturer, 2001, Wichita State University, 2001 (two lectures), Smithsonian Distinguished Lecturer, fall 2002, Rutgers University, 2002; University of South Carolina, 2002; UNC- Charlotte, fall, 2003, College of Charleston, 2005 (Biology Honors Day), Stephen F. Austin State University, 2003 (Burr Distinguished Lecturer, Honors Day). (Plus, over 20 public NC lectures).

2012-2013---Numerous book talks, entitled, “Avian Origins: Five Major Blunders of Paleontology”---based on Riddle of the Feathered Dragons: Hidden Birds of China.

Recent distinguished lectures: 2004: San Diego Museum of , evening address: Bird Origins: Current Controversies. 2006: North Carolina Academy of Sciences, Keynote Address: Bird Origins Through the Ages. 2007: Linnaean Society of New York. The Origin and : Following the Trail.

3 2008: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Keynote Address: Mark Catesby and his Natural History . . . An Introduction and Perspective.

2009: Oxford University symposium lecture: Darwin, Creationism and the Development of Consensus Science, In: Science and Religion After Darwin. (Professor Richard Dawkins and Canon Brian Mountford.

2014: Cambridge University, Invited symposium speaker: Predictable Evolution in the Constrained Avian Radiation, in: “Are There Limits to Evolution” (Professor Simon Conway Morris), September 2014.

Publication Summary: (author of 160+ publications, including seven major books and various editions and translations, and five monographs):

Books and Monographs: l973. Evolutionary Trends in the Neotropical Ovenbirds and Woodhewers. Ornithological Monographs, No. 13, iv + 69 pp., 20 text figures. (Ph.D. dissertation). l975. Structure and Evolution of Vertebrates: A Laboratory Text for Comparative Vertebrate . New York: W. W. Norton & Co., Inc. viii + l68 pp., l25 ill.

1975. Morphology of the Bony Stapes (Columella) in the Passeriformes and Related Groups: Evolutionary Implications. University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History, Miscellaneous Publications 63: l-34; 7 figs., l6 pls. l979. (with Theodore W. Torrey). Morphogenesis of the Vertebrates. 4th ed., New York: John Wiley & Sons. xii + 570 pp., 370 figs. l980. (with Storrs L. Olson, senior author). Relationships and Evolution of (Aves: Phoenicopteridae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 316, iii + 73 pp., 40 figs. (Reviewed in , Jan. 24, l981, and Science Digest, August, l981). l980. (with Storrs L. Olson, senior author). Presbyornis and the Origin of the . Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 323, iii + 24 pp., l5 figs.

4 l980. The Age of Birds. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. xi + 208 pp., 76 halftones, and l32 line drawings. (Reviewed in: New York Times, Oct. 7, l980; Newsweek, Dec. 8, l980; Discover, Dec., l980; Washington Post, Dec. 7, l980; Los Angeles Times, Dec. l4, l980; Village Voice, Dec. 10, l980; Science, March l3, l981; Nature, April 23, l981, etc.). (winner of l981 American Association of University Presses Award for design). l982. (with Storrs L. Olson). Morphological Similarities Between the Menurae and the Rhinocryptidae, Relict Birds of the Southern Hemisphere. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 366, iii + 22 pp., l7 figs. l984. Es Begann am Jura-Meer. Die faszinierende Stammesgeschichte der Vogel. German ed. The Age of Birds. Hildesheim, : Gerstenberg Buchuerlag, l98 pp. l985. The Age of Birds. Japanese ed., Tokyo: Shisaku Sha, 336 pp. l985. Catesby's Birds of Colonial America. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, xvi + 176 pp., 111 black and white and 20 color plates. l987. The Age of Birds. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Paperback edition. xi + 208 pp. l989. Birds of Colonial Williamsburg: A Historical Portfolio. Williamsburg, Virginia: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. 162 pp.,70 watercolors by Douglas Pratt). l991. (with E. McCrady). Torrey's Morphogenesis of the Vertebrates. 5th ed., New York: John Wiley & Sons, 517 p.

1996. The Origin and Evolution of Birds. New Haven: Yale University Press, 432 pp, 534 illus. (winner, Professional and Scholar Publishing Award, Biological Science, Association of American Publishers; candidate Pulitzer Prize (General Nonfiction), and The National Book Critics Circle Award.

1999. The Origin and Evolution of Birds, 2nd Ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 466 pp.

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2004. The Origin and Evolution of Birds, Japanese Edition.

2012. Riddle of the Feathered Dragons: Hidden Birds of China. New Yale University Press, 358 pp. (reviewed in Auk 129(3):567-568; see book review blurbs below.

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Selected recent titles, 1993-present:

Earlier, selected papers: Feduccia, A. 1967. The amphirhinal condition in the Passeriformes. Auk 79:453-455; Feduccia, A. 1968. The Pliocene rails of North America. Auk 85:441-453; Feduccia, A. 1972. Variation in the posterior border of the sternum in some tree-trunk foraging birds. Wilson Bulletin 81:315-328; Feduccia, A. 1973. as . Evolution 27:166- 169; Feduccia, A. 1973. A new Eocene zygodactyl bird. Journal of Paleontology 47:501-503; Feduccia, A., and B. H. Slaughter. 1974. Sexual dimorphism in skates (Rajidae) and its possible role in differential niche utilization. Evolution 28:164-168; Feduccia, A. 1974. Another Old World vulture from the New World. Auk 86:251-255; Feduccia, A. 1974. Morphology of the bony stapes in New and Old World suboscines: new evidence for common ancestry. Auk 91:427- 429; Feduccia, A. 1976. Hypothetical stages in the evolution of and flamingos. Journal of Theoretical Biology 67:715-721; Feduccia, A. 1977. The whalebill is a . Nature 266:719- 720; Feduccia, A. 1977. A model for the evolution of perching birds. Systematic Zoology 26:19- 31; Feduccia, A. 1978. Presbyornis and the evolution of ducks and flamingos. American Scientist 66:298-304; Feduccia, A., and H. B. Tordoff. 1979. of : asymmetric vanes indicate aerodynamic function. Science 203(4384):1021-1022; Olson, S. L., and A. Feduccia. 1979. Flight capability and the pectoral girdle of Archaeopteryx. Nature 278:247-248. Feduccia, A., and M. R. Voorhies. 1979. Miocene converges on secretarybird. Ibis131:349-354; Feduccia, A. 1985. On why the lacked feathers. In: The Beginnings of Birds, pp. 75-79; Feduccia, A. 1991. A preliminary study of skeletal of birds in zoos and its implications. Proceedings of the Twentieth International Ornithological Congress, 1930-1936; Feduccia, A. 1992. Crowned cranes (Gruidae: ) in the Miocene of Nebraska. Los Angeles Co. Museum of Natural History, Science Series 26:239-248.

Feduccia, A. 1993. Evidence from claw geometry indicating arboreal habits of Archaeopteryx. Science 259:790-793. (with color cover painting by John P. O’Neill, and commentary, pp. 764-765, by Virginia Morell; Discover - top 50 science stories of 1993).

Feduccia, A. 1993. Aerodynamic model for the early evolution of feathers provided by Propithecus (Primates, Lemuridae). Journal of Theoretical Biology 160:159-164.

Feduccia, A., and R. Wild. 1993. Birdlike characters in the Megalancosaurus. Naturwissenschaften 80:564-566. (with color cover painting by John P. O’Neill).

Feduccia, A. 1994. Aerodynamic model for the evolution of feathers and feather misinterpretation. Courier Forschungsinstitut-Senckenberg 18:65-77.

Feduccia, A. 1994. The great dinosaur debate. Living Bird 13(4):28-33.

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Hou, L.-H., Z. Zhou, L. D. Martin, and A. Feduccia. 1995. A beaked bird from the of China. Nature 377:616-618. (Discover - top 100 science stories of 1995).

Feduccia, A. 1995. Explosive evolution in Tertiary birds and . Science 267:637-638. (also see: Janzen, D. H. 1995. Who survived the ? Science 268: 785.

Feduccia, A., L. D. Martin, and J. E. Simmons. 1996. Nesting dinosaur. Science 272:1571.

Hou, L.-H., L. D. Martin, Z. Zhou, and A. Feduccia. 1996. Earliest adaptive radiation of birds revealed by newly discovered Chinese fossils. Science 274:1164-1167.

Burke, A. C., and A. Feduccia. 1997. Developmental patterns and the identification of homologies in the avian hand. Science 278:666-668. (with commentary by R. Hinchliffe, pp. 596-597).

Burke, A. C., and A. Feduccia. 1998. Counting the fingers of birds and dinosaurs. Science 280:355.

Feduccia, A., and L. D. Martin. 1998. Theropod-bird link reconsidered. Nature 391:754- 755.

Feduccia, A. 1998. Feathers: an ancient perfection. Yearbook of Science and the Future, feature article, pp. 70-87. Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica.

Martin, L. D., Z. Zhou, L. Hou, and A. Feduccia. 1998. Confuciusornis sanctus compared to Archaeopteryx lithographica. Naturwissenschaften 85:286-289. (Color cover painting by Douglas Pratt).

Hou, L.-H., Martin, L. D., Z. Zhou, and A. Feduccia. 1999. A diapsid in a new species of Confuciusornis. Nature 399: 679-682.

Feduccia, A. 1999. 1,2,3=2,3,4: Accommodating the cladogram. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 96: 4740-4742.

Geist, N. R., and A. Feduccia. 2000. Gravity-defying behaviors: identifying models for Protoaves. American Zoologist 40:664-675.

Jones, T. D., J. Ruben, L. D. Martin, E. V. Kurochkin, A. Feduccia, P. F. A. Maderson, W. J. Hellenius, N. R. Geist, and V. Alifanov. 2000. Nonavian feathers in a late Triassic archosaur. Science 288: 2202-2205. (Commentary: Feathers, or flight of fancy?, by E. Stokstad, 2124-2125).

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Feduccia, A. 2001. The problem of bird origins and early avian evolution Journal für Ornithologie142:139-147. Plenary lecture for the 150th anniversary of the German Ornithological Society, Leipzig, Oct. 2000.

Feduccia, A. 2001. Palaeoecology (Communications arising): fossils and avian evolution. Nature 414:507-508.

Degernes, L. A., and A. Feduccia. 2001. Tenectomy of the supracoracoideus muscle to deflight pigeons (Columbia livia) and cockatiels (Nymphicus hollandicus) Journal of Avian Surgery 15(1):10-16.

Feduccia, A. 2002. Evolution of birds and avian flight. In: The Cornell Lab of Ornithology Home Study Course in Bird Biology, 2nd Ed. (Podulka, S., Rohrbaugh, R., and Bonney, R., Eds.), Pp. E1-34. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY.

Feduccia, A. 2001. Digit of birds and dinosaurs: accommodating the cladogram. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 16(6): 285.

Feduccia, A. 2002. Pseudo-homeosis in avian feet. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 17(6): 256.

Feduccia, A., and J. Nowicki. 2002. The hand of birds revealed by early embryos. Naturwissenschaften, 89(9): 391-393 (with color cover; highlighted in Editor’s Choice. Science, 297:1611).

Feduccia, A. 2002. Birds are dinosaurs: simple answer to a complex problem. Auk 119(4):1187-1201. (No. 17 most accessed paper, 274 times, in three yr. period).

Feduccia, A. 2003. Bird origins: problem solved, but debate continues . . . Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 18(1): 9-10.

Feduccia, A. 2003. “Big bang” for Tertiary birds? Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 18: 172-176.

Feduccia, A. 2003. When dinosaurs fly (Letters to the Editor). Discover 24(4):8.

Feduccia, A. 2003. Review of: ‘ Birds: Over the Heads of Dinosaurs,’ Edited by L. M. Chiappe, and L. M. Witmer (2002, Berkeley, Univ. of California Press). Quarterly Review of Biology 78(2):216-217.

Feduccia, A. 2003. Review of: “Dinosaurs of the Air: the Evolution and Loss of Flight in Dinosaurs and Birds,” by Gregory S. Paul (2002, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 460 pp.) . Auk 120:916-917.

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Feduccia, A., T. Lingham-Soliar, and J. R. Hinchliffe. 2005. Do feathered dinosaurs exist? Testing the hypothesis on neontological and paleontological evidence. Journal of Morphology 266:125-166.

Feduccia, A. 2006. Mesozoic aviary takes form. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103:5-6.

Feduccia, A., L. D. Martin, and S. Tarsitano. 2007. Archaeopteryx: Quo Vadis? Auk 124:373-380.

Lingham-Soliar, T., A. Feduccia, and X. Wang. 2007. A new Chinese specimen indicates that ‘protofeathers’ in the Early Cretaceous theropod dinosaur are degraded collagen fibers. Proceedings of the Royal Society of B 274:1823-1829.

Feduccia, A. 2009. A colorful Mesozoic . Review of: Feathered Dinosaurs: The (John Long). Trends in Ecology and Evolution 24:409-410.

Feduccia, A. 2009. Archaeopteryx. Pp. 422-424, In: Ruse, M., and J. Travis, eds. Evolution: the First Four Billion Years. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Burnham, D., A. Feduccia, et al. 2011. Tree climbing: a fundamental avian . Journal of Systematic Palaeontology DOI:10.1080/14772019.2010. 522201.

Feduccia, A. 2011. Cretaceous avian crops reveal dietary secrets and pose evolutionary questions. Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences 108(40):16487-16488.

Feduccia, A. 2012. Opinion: The Big Idea. Is it a bird? Is it a dinosaur? New Scientist, 28 April:28-29.

Zhang, Z., A. Feduccia, and H. James. 2012. A Late Miocene accipitrid (Aves: ) from Nebraska and its implications for the divergence of Old World vultures. PLoS ONE 7(11):1-8. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0048842.

Feduccia, A. 2013. Bird origins anew. Auk (Perspective) 130(1):1-12. (No. 11 most accessed article, 259 times, within 3 yr. period).

Feduccia, A., D. Burnham, and D. Maio. 2013. In memoriam: Larrry Dean Martin, 1943-2013. Auk, 130:804-806..

Feduccia, A. 2013. Review of: The Unfeathered Bird by Katrina van Grouw (Princeton University Press, 2013). Emu 113:193-194.

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Feduccia, A. (with S. A. Czerkas). 2014. Jurassic archosaur is a non-dinosaurian bird. Journal of Ornithology 155:841-851. (No. 1 most downloaded paper for Journal of Ornithology for 2014).

Feduccia, A. 2014. Avian extinction at the end of the Cretaceous: Assessing the magnitude and subsequent explosive radiation. Cretaceous Research 50:1-15. (No. 1 most accessed and downloaded paper for Cretaceous Research for 90 days following publication; downloaded 817 times, April – December 2014).

Feduccia, A. 2015. Topsy-turvy bird phylogeny. Pp. 118-119, In: Martinius, A. W., and A. Cullum, eds. 52 Things You Should Know About Palaeontology. London: Agile Libre; (each author limited to 600 words).

Feduccia, A. 2015. Theories on the origin of flight in birds. In Press, In: eds., The Encyclopedia of . London: Elsevier.

Feduccia, A. 2015. Testing the neoflightless hypothesis: Propatagia reveal flying ancestry of maniraptorans. Journal of Ornithology, in press.

Below: LSU Museum of Natural Science, Museum Quarterly, October 2008:6.

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