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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…

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By Nature.com
Wednesday, July 22, 2026 · 13h ago
Rates of passerine body plan evolution in time and space - Nature

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<li>Jablonski, D., Roy, K. &amp; Valentine, J. W. Out of the tropics: evolutionary dynamics of the latitudinal diversity gradient. Science314, 102106 (2006). Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Schola…Read more

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