Are+Birds+Dinosaurs?

Resources:


 * Carroll, S.B. (2005). Endless Forms Most Beautiful. W.W. Norton & Company.**
 * Carroll, S.B. (2006). The Making of the Fittest. W.W. Norton & Company.**
 * Coyne, J. A. (2009). Why Evolution is True. Viking.**
 * Cracraft, J. and Eldredge, N. (1979). Phylogenetic Analysis and Paleontology. Columbia University Press.**
 * Diamond, J. (1999). Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. W.W. Norton & Company**
 * Eldridge, N. and Cracraft, J. (1980) Phylogenetic Patterns and the Evolutionary Process. Columbia University Press.**
 * Fastovsky, D.E., and Weishampel, D.B. (2009). Dinosaurs: A concise Natural History. Cambridge University Press**
 * Humes, E. (2007) Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Teligion, and the Battle for America's Soul. Harper Collins Publishers.**
 * Scotchmoor, J.G. et al (2002). Dinosaurs: The Science Behind the Stories.American Geological Institute.**
 * Shubin, N. (2008). Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body. Random House.**
 * Zimmer, C. (2010). The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution. Roberts and Company.**

http://www.jefflewis.net/graphics/blog/prothero_evolution_dino_bird_homology.jpg

another one: http://www.jefflewis.net/graphics/blog/prothero_evolution_rhipidistian_cladogram.jpg

Position distinguishes between the physical and the spiritual. The physical process and evidence of evolution is clearly acceptable to the Catholic Church, vis:
 * Catholic Position on the teaching of evolution:**

http://www.newadvent.org/library/docs_jp02tc.htm (John Paul II - 1996)

and

http://www.newadvent.org/library/docs_pi12hg.htm (Pius XII - 1950)

and finally,

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19956961/ (Benedict XVI - 2007)

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/clad/clad2.html
 * Methodology of a Cladistic Analysis**

http://rainbow.ldeo.columbia.edu/courses/v1001/cladogram1.html
 * Another great cladogram activity:**

Online cladogram building activity!: http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/bio_07/get_chapter_group.htm?cin=6&rg=animated_biology&at=animated_biology&var=animated_biology

http://www.scotese.com/
 * Paleomap Project**