Rise of the grasshoppers: New analysis redraws evolutionary tree for major insect family

Wednesday, July 25, 2018 - 14:58 in Biology & Nature

Thanks to a decade-long analysis of grasshoppers' genetic relationships, scientists now have the clearest picture yet of the evolutionary pathways grasshoppers have followed to attain their incredible diversity -- and the findings put the birthplace of the broadest lineage of grasshoppers in South America, not Africa, as previously thought.

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