Year in review: Insect, bird evolution revisited

Genetic analyses produce new family trees

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RETHINKING LINKS  Insects got an entirely new family tree after an extensive genetic analysis rearranged the creatures' relations.

Dr. Oliver Niehuis, ZFMK, Bonn

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Biologists in 2014 saw what an astronomical amount of data could do for evolutionary questions — and what it couldn’t.