Review Activity 2: Skeletal Features for Flight

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2 questions
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Review the information on the cladogram below. Since we have direct evidence of the appearance of many of these features very early in the dinosaur lineage, we can infer that they served a function other than flight.



Select at least three of the mapped features. List the three features on this document and suggest what function(s) they might have served other than flight. Give a reason for your suggestions.

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What other inferences can you make? Use the evidence illustrated on this cladogram to make and support a hypothesis about the evolution of skeletal features associated with flight.