Abstracto
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In Where Song Began, Tim Low tells us that he decided to write the book because of one opposite of song: silence; the silence of the ornithological community about the recent revolution in our understanding of birds.
For most of the Twentieth Century, it was believed that birds originated in Europe. There was good reason for this: the oldest known bird, which looked much like a dinosaur, is Archaeopteryx lithographica, described by Meyer in 1861. It lived in Germany during the Jurassic, 150 million years ago and no older, uncontestable bird fossils have ever been found.