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Parrots and Falcons – Long-Lost Cousins (2015)
- skybrian 9y agotldr: genetic analysis shows that parrots and falcons are closely related. And... that's about it for this article. Here's one that's more in-depth: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/dec/11/birds-evolution-feathers-genome-sequencing-avian-genes https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/dec/11/birds-evolut...
- PhasmaFelis 9y ago> tldr: genetic analysis shows that parrots and falcons are closely related. Falcons are more closely related to parrots than they are to hawks and eagles. That's more interesting that "bird related to other bird".
- SAI_Peregrinus 9y agoPasserines (songbirds) are more closely related to parrots than parrots (and songbirds) are to falcons.
- gumby 9y agoI like that the article starts with a sympathetic description of the use of morphology to define taxonomic structure (an understandable approach to take in a pre-DNA world). This predates Linnaeus: in German, for example, the word Falke means both hawk and falcon. Not sure what approach I would take to translate this article for a german lay audience.