AW: Steiner (1934)

[evelyn sobielski <koreke77@yahoo.de>]

> Concerning the ontogeny of bird fingers, I have repeatedly
> cited a book that cites a "Steiner 1934" as its
> source. I may have found that reference cited somewhere
> else:
> 
> H. Steiner (1934): Über die embryonale Hand- und
> Fuß-Skelettanlage bei den Crocodiliern, sowie über ihre
> Beziehung zur Vogel-Flügelanlage und zur ursprünglichen
> Tetrapoden-Extremität. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 41: 383 --
> 396.
> 
> The tite means "About the embryonic hand and foot
> skeleton _Anlage_ in crocodilians, as well as about its
> relation to the bird wing _Anlage_ and to the original
> tetrapod extremity".

It is for example cited here:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/b587073l17u76464/

Which I have not read. It may be good, it may be crap - but it has a highly 
significant point to make in the abstract: the difference between "digits" and 
"condensations".

If this terminology would be adopted by all working in the field, we actually 
might save years otherwise wasted with bickering. Because as the debate is (at 
least as far as it is visible to non-participants) being conducted now, the 
entire "dispute" has a "flaw"*  at its very core.


Regards,

Eike


* As per Alan Greenspan, October 23, 2008.