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Rates of passerine body plan evolution in time and space - Nature

A reconstruction of the evolutionary history of passerine body plans over the past ~50 Myr shows rare bursts of phenotypic innovation near the origin of major taxonomic groups that are temporally aligned with periods of increased climatic instability. Similar…

<li>Jablonski, D., Roy, K. & Valentine, J. W. Out of the tropics: evolutionary dynamics of the latitudinal diversity gradient. Science314, 102106 (2006).
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Rates of passerine body plan evolution in time and space - Nature

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