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Illustration showing the rough lineage leading from basal/primitive coelurosaurian theropods to advanced carinated and modern birds, drawn for A Field Guide to Mesozoic Birds and Other Winged Dinosaurs. www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Mes…

A t-shirt based on this design is available from my redbubble store: www.redbubble.com/people/panav…

Prints and posters of this design can be purchased from this link: www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1216…

Obviously inspired by both Hallett's painting of bird evolution and Zallinger's famous "Descent of Man", this necessarily includes the same caveat that evolution is not a straight line (as is plain from the rest of the book!). However, each species can trace an unbroken lineage back through time via successive common ancestors, and this is an attempt to approximate that using species as basal as possible along each step of bird evolution (also inspired by the "view lineage" feature of PhyloPic phylopic.org ).

Coloration inspired by similar, older illustration of the same idea...

EDIT: By popular demand, here's a larger version. Might need to make this a 'guess the species' type thing

Edit 2: Here's a MUCH larger version. Thanks to Richard Dawkins linking this on his Facebook page. Unfortunately dA offers very few print options for a piece of this aspect ratio, but I've enabled the original for download for anybody who wants to print their own correctly.

Edit 3: Due to the terrible security measures at deviantART, I have had proceeds from the sales of this and other prints stolen. As a result I am no longer able to offer prints or downloads through dA. Please see the RedBubble links above for prints and T-shirts. I apologize for the inconvenience.

Species featured, from left to right: Dilong paradoxus, Nqwebasaurus thwazi, Haplocheirus sollers, Yixianosaurus longimanus, Xiaotingia zhengi, Archaeopteryx lithographica, Confuciusornis sanctus, Bohaironis guoi, Apsaravis ukhana, Ichthyornis anceps.

Description
Illustration showing the rough lineage leading from basal/primitive coelurosaurian theropods to advanced carinated and modern birds, drawn for A Field Guide to Mesozoic Birds and Other Winged Dinosaurs. www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Mes…

A t-shirt based on this design is available from my redbubble store: www.redbubble.com/people/panav…

Prints and posters of this design can be purchased from this link: www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1216…

Obviously inspired by both Hallett's painting of bird evolution and Zallinger's famous "Descent of Man", this necessarily includes the same caveat that evolution is not a straight line (as is plain from the rest of the book!). However, each species can trace an unbroken lineage back through time via successive common ancestors, and this is an attempt to approximate that using species as basal as possible along each step of bird evolution (also inspired by the "view lineage" feature of PhyloPic phylopic.org ).

Coloration inspired by similar, older illustration of the same idea...

EDIT: By popular demand, here's a larger version. Might need to make this a 'guess the species' type thing

Edit 2: Here's a MUCH larger version. Thanks to Richard Dawkins linking this on his Facebook page. Unfortunately dA offers very few print options for a piece of this aspect ratio, but I've enabled the original for download for anybody who wants to print their own correctly.

Edit 3: Due to the terrible security measures at deviantART, I have had proceeds from the sales of this and other prints stolen. As a result I am no longer able to offer prints or downloads through dA. Please see the RedBubble links above for prints and T-shirts. I apologize for the inconvenience.

Species featured, from left to right: Dilong paradoxus, Nqwebasaurus thwazi, Haplocheirus sollers, Yixianosaurus longimanus, Xiaotingia zhengi, Archaeopteryx lithographica, Confuciusornis sanctus, Bohaironis guoi, Apsaravis ukhana, Ichthyornis anceps.