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Based on 48 Genomes, New Avian Family Tree Provides Surprising Insights into Bird Evolution

Dec 11, 2014
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Julia Karow

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) — Birds appear to have rapidly evolved around the time of the mass extinction 66 million years ago that included the dinosaurs, giving rise to the 10,500 bird species we know today, according to results released today from a large-scale international effort to construct an avian tree of life, based on genomic sequence data.

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