Symposium: "The Evolutionary Origin of Feathers" Conference to be held in Denver, Colorado on January 6-10, 1999, hostedby Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB)

马德森9807168名与会者将参加由综合与比较生物学学会主办的拟议会议，讨论飞行两足脊椎动物从其四足祖先进化而来这一有争议的话题。参与者将从功能到分子水平考虑现存和化石形式的系统学、生物力学和生理学方面的当前数据。这种形式将允许听众提交书面问题，这些问题将以圆桌会议形式进行讨论。论文和问答环节将发表。

Maderson 9807168 Participants in the proposed meeting hosted by the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) will discuss the controversial subject of the evolution of flying bipedal vertebrates from their quadrapedal ancestors. The participants will consider the current data from functional to molecular levels in the contect of systematics, biomechanics and physiology of extant and fossil forms. The format will allow the audience to submit written questions which will be discussed in round-table format. The papers and the question/answer session will be published.