Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 20, 2014
One of the other papers released last week identified chickens — of 21 species studied — as having the most similar genome “to the common avian ancestor, probably a bipedal feathered dinosaur” ( Romanov et al. Jarvis et al. Australaves: Songbirds and Their Kin. Eight years ago, Ericson et al. Hackett et al.
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