Study Traces Evolutionary Origins of Migration in New World Birds

Monday, August 4, 2014 - 15:18 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Scientists from the University of Chicago have developed a new method to reveal the ancestral ranges of New World birds, and discovered that bird migration in the Americas evolved in species that resided in North America. Their work also offers evidence that many tropical bird species descended from migratory ancestors that lost migration.

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