PROGRAM: Early Bird Project: Unraveling the Avian Tree of Life

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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Dr. Shannon Hackett, Associate Curator of Birds at the Field Museum, will talk about the exciting new results of the five-year National Science Foundation "Tree of Life" project.   She and her colleagues gathered the largest DNA sequence data set of its kind which they used to investigate the evolutionary relationships of all orders and families of birds.  Come hear how the tree of birds has been shaken.