Intractable Tangles in the Bird Family Tree.

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      Rapid sequential speciation events can outpace the fixation of genetic variants, resulting in a family tree that lacks clear branching patterns. A new study of bird genomes reveals such an explosive super-radiation that may coincide with the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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