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Early Evolution of Birds: Roundtable Discussion
The final day of the Washington, D.C, meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology
and Evolution (7 June 1996) was organized by Peter Wellnhofer and was devoted to Mesozoic
birds and avian origins. The morning session consisted of individual paper presentations,
some of which appear elsewhere in this volume. The afternoon session was given
over to a roundtable discussion in which the participants were gathered in an atmosphere
conducive to audience participation. The roundtable consisted of three parts, each with a
discussion leader who outlined the problems to be considered and who invited comment.
The entire roundtable was recorded on audio- and videotapes, which were later used by
the discussion leaders to produce the following partial transcripts and summaries.
There was broad participation in the discussion. Those who are cited directly in the transcripts
are listed below in alphabetical order by surname.
Buhler, Paul, Universitat Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
Chatterjee, Sankar, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States
Chiappe, Luis M., American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United
States
Elzanowski, Andrzej, University of Wroclaw, Poland
Forster, Catherine, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York, United States
Gatesy, Steve M., Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Goslow, G.E., Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Kurochkin, Evgeny, Paleontological Institute, Moscow, Russia
Martin, Larry D., University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States
Mayr, Gerald, Forschungsinstitut Senckenburg, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Naples, Virginia, Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, Illinois, United States
Olson, Storrs L., Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C, United States
Ostrom, John H., Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Parkes, Kenneth C, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Paul, Gregory S., Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Peters, D. Stefan, Forschungsinstitut Senckenburg, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Sereno, Paul C, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illiniois, United States
Wellnhofer, Peter, Bayerische Staatssammlung fur Palaontologie, Munich, Germany
Witmer, Lawrence M., Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, United States
Zhou, Zhonghe, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States
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