Luciano Nicolas Naka

  • Professor of Zoology, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil and Visiting Scholar, Harvard University
Birds don’t fly across wide Amazonian rivers like the Rio Negro. Marcos Amend www.marcosamend.com (for use with this article only)

Bird DNA helps explain Amazonian rivers’ role in evolution

Rivers are natural boundaries for evolving populations. But scientists don’t agree whether they create new species or just help maintain them. Research using birds’ molecular clocks provides some answers.

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