Deep-Time Demographic Inference Suggests Ecological Release as Driver of Neoavian Adaptive Radiation

Assessing the applicability of theory to major adaptive radiations in deep time represents an extremely difficult problem in evolutionary biology. Neoaves, which includes 95% of living birds, is believed to have undergone a period of rapid diversification roughly coincident with the Cretaceous–Paleo...

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Main Authors: Peter Houde, Edward L. Braun, Lawrence Zhou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-04-01
Series:Diversity
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/12/4/164