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form are largely silenced today. Alan Feduccia, an expert or-
nithologist and professor from the Biology Department of the
University of North Carolina, said that "most recent workers

who have studied various anatomical features of Archaeopteryx
have found the creature to be much more birdlike than previously
imagined." Again according to Feduccia, "the resemblance of
Archaeopteryx to theropod dinosaurs has been grossly overesti-
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mated." In short, it is now known that there is no vast differ-
ence between Archaeopteryx and other birds.
In the century and a half since Darwin, no intermediate

forms—including Archaeopteryx—have been found. This fact

Thomas Huxley,
Darwin's most fervent
supporter

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