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ABSTRACT Padian and Dial1 challenge our view that the evolution of flight involved a four-winged stage. This disagreement stems from our different views on the origin of bird flight and from

the methodology we use to analyse functional morphology in the non-avian theropod _Microraptor_2 and in an enantiornithine bird3 from the Early Cretaceous period in China. Access through

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