Peter Houde wrote:
It will probably be a long time before any consensus is reached about the validity of Metaves and Coronaves, but these sure are exciting times.
Agreed. Thanks for a very interesting paper.
I for one balked when I read several years ago that grebes are the sister of flamingos. I'm not balking anymore; the evidence is overwhelming. Mayr even argued this recently from cladistic analysis of morphological characters.
Cheers
Tim