Zhongjianornis an enlarged, keeled breastbone in more advanced birds. However, later analysis of the anatomy of "Z. yangi" cast doubt on this interpretation of the bird as very primitive. Research published in 2012 found that some of the apparently primitive features were due to poor preservation of the bones, and that "Zhongjianornis" is more similar in anatomy to primitive euornitheans like "Chaoyangia" and "Schizooura". A phylogenetic analysis showed that a very primitive position in the bird family tree for "Z. yangi" is unlikely given current evidence. Zhongjianornis Zhongjianornis is a genus of beaked, pigeon-sized birds from the early Cretaceous period of
Computational anatomy to D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's developments On Growth and Form which has led to scientific explanations of morphogenesis, the process by which patterns are formed in Biology. Albrecht Durer's Four Books on Human Proportion were arguably the earliest works on Computational anatomy. The efforts of Noam Chomsky in his pioneering of Computational Linguistics inspired the original formulation of Computational anatomy as a generative model of shape and form from exemplars acted upon via transformations. Due to the availability of dense 3D measurements via technologies such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), Computational anatomy has emerged as a subfield of medical imaging and