Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA.
Curr Biol. 2014 May 19;24(10):R401-2. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.04.005.
Many biologists and conservation practitioners believe that preserving evolutionary diversity should be a priority. An innovative new study measures the evolutionary distinctness of all the world's birds and identifies the species and locations that capture the highest fraction of avian evolutionary history.
许多生物学家和自然资源保护工作者认为，保存进化多样性应该是优先事项。一项创新性的新研究衡量了世界上所有鸟类的进化独特性，并确定了那些具有最高比例鸟类进化历史的物种和地点。
