Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Exhaustive Family Tree for Birds Shows Recent, Rapid Diversification

ScienceDaily -- A Yale-led scientific team has produced the most comprehensive family tree for birds to date, connecting all living bird species -- nearly 10,000 in total -- and revealing surprising new details about their evolutionary history and its geographic context.

MORE: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121031141906.htm