The dodo has since become fixed in society's imagination as the very emblem of ineptitude, an evolutionary clown—an impression greatly helped by the bird's appearance in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1865.
Dr. Gostling was an author of a recent paper published in The Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society that tries to set the record straight. By revisiting 400 years of literature and analyzing fossil evidence... his team of scientists undertook the most comprehensive review to date of the bird's taxonomy and evolutionary history.
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