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Mountains May Be Cradles of Evolution Sunday, September 27, 2009 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> General Science   
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Growing mountains may give rise to new species — and not simply provide a refuge to species whose traditional habitats have been lost, US scientists suggest. "The major times of [species] diversification directly coincide with times of large tectonic events," says Catherine Badgley, a palaeontologist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, who presented the findings this week at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in Bristol, UK. (source: nature.com)
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