Subject: [Tweeters] New bird family tree
Date: Aug 4 21:14:19 2008
From: Larry Schwitters - lpatters at ix.netcom.com


Tweeters,

I know this has been brought up before but I just found a paper that
includes a colorful diagram of "The Tree" which is based on the
analysis of 19 genes rather than physical structure. Lots more work
to be done on this but some of you should find it very interesting.

It's a PDF file. The tree is on page 6.

http://www.sentex.ca/~corya/Hackettetal2008.Science.pdf

Larry Schwitters
Issaquah