Pursuits
An Unprecedented Flock of Genomes Redraws the Bird Tree of Life
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We may never know what came first -- the chicken or the egg -- but thanks to the largest-ever study of avian genomes, we now know a lot more about where both of them came from.
Analyses of 45 bird genomes, published for the first time this week across 28 papers in Science, Genome Biology, GigaScience and other publications, blows wide open our understanding of how and when birds evolved.