Feather
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A feather is any one of the protruding flat soft growths making up the total plumage of a bird.
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Feather Evolution
Even Ernst Mayr, who some would hail as a father of modern evolution biology stated in 1942: "It must be admitted, however, that it is a considerable strain on one’s credulity to assume that finely balanced systems such as certain sense organs (the eye of vertebrates, or the bird’s feather) could be improved by random mutations." [1]
Creationist scientists also cite the March 2003 issue of Scientific American which stated:
"Of all the body coverings nature has designed, feathers are the most various and the most mysterious...The origin of feathers is a specific instance of the much more general question of the origin of evolutionary novelties--structures that have no clear antecedents in ancestral animals and no clear related structures (homologues) in contemporary relatives. Although evolutionary theory provides a robust explanation for the appearance of minor variations in the size and shape of creatures and their component parts, it does not yet give as much guidance for understanding the emergence of entirely new structures, including digits, limbs, eyes and feathers...." [2][3]
Gallery
 Peacock feathers |
 Assorted feathers |
 Wing feathers |
 Scanning Electron Micrograph of feather |
References
External links
- The Feather Atlas U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Forensics Lab. High-resolution scans of flight feathers of major groups of North American birds as an aid to species identification.
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