Bird DNA helps explain Amazonian rivers' role in evolution
- Written by 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), Author providedWhen the young naturalist Alfred R. Wallace left England to explore the New World in 1848, one of his key observations in the Amazon region was that large rivers were unsurpassable barriers for some...
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