Scientists propose new bird family tree, revises bird evolutionary history

Source: Xinhua Editor: huaxia 2024-04-03 15:50:21 HANGZHOU, April 3 (Xinhua) -- An international team has revolutionized the system of bird classification and rewritten our understanding of the evolutionary history of birds. Despite tremendous efforts in the past decades, the relationship among main avian lineages remains controversial. The researchers, led by Chinese zoologists from Zhejiang University, analyzed the genomes of 363 bird species in 92 percent of all extant families and presented a new, well-supported evolutionary tree. The Neoaves, a group …