'Living fossil' tree contains genetic imprints of rain forests under climate change

Thursday, October 30, 2008 - 16:56 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A "living fossil" tree species is helping a University of Michigan researcher understand how tropical forests responded to past climate change and how they may react to global warming in the future. The research appears in the November issue of the journal Evolution.

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