Bird Evolution: Convergence Fits the Bill

Daniel J Field

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2019.01.018

Bird Evolution: Convergence Fits the Bill

Curr Biol. 2019 Feb 18;29(4):R132-R134. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.01.018.

Author

Daniel J Field¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB1 3AS, UK. Electronic address: djf70@cam.ac.uk.

PMID: 30779903
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.01.018

Abstract

New fossils help pinpoint when some birds started relying on a seed-based diet and reveal that disparate bill shapes evolved repeatedly throughout bird evolutionary history.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Biological Evolution*
Ecology
Finches*
Fossils