▪ Abstract About 20 years ago, DNA sequences were separately described from the quagga
(a type of zebra) and an ancient Egyptian individual. What made these DNA sequences …

In spite of past controversies, the field of ancient DNA is now a reliable research area due to
recent methodological improvements. A series of recent large-scale studies have revealed …

In recent years, avian systematics has been characterized by a diminished reliance on
morphological cladistics of modern taxa, intensive palaeornithogical research stimulated by …

Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds presents an up-to-date classification of
Australian birds. Building on the authors 1994 book, The Taxonomy and Species of Birds of …

Many evolutionary studies of birds rely on the estimation of molecular divergence times and
substitution rates. In order to perform such analyses, it is necessary to incorporate some form …

Biologists have used a wide range of organisms to study the origin of taxa and their
subsequent evolutionary change in space and time. One commonly used tool is the …

Perspectives in Ornithology 2[Auk, Vol. 121 to date much earlier nodes (eg among families
and orders) in the avian tree (eg van Tuinen and Hedges 2001, Feduccia 2003). Here I …

Current understanding of the diversification of birds is hindered by their incomplete fossil
record and uncertainty in phylogenetic relationships and phylogenetic rates of molecular …

Who does not remember the genetic identification of the skeletons of the Romanov family or
the investigation of the putative clothing of the famous Kaspar Hauser? Those are highlights …

As the most remote archipelago in the world, the Hawaiian Islands are home to a highly
endemic and disharmonic biota that has fascinated biologists for centuries. Forests are the …