Program for the Human Environment, The Rockefeller University
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Focused on long-term trends relevant to the environment, including changes in population, transportation, energy, land use, and industrial materials, as well as past, present, and future states of plant and animal populations on land and in the oceans.
05/21/2018
Mark Stoeckle and David Thaler publish “Why should mitochondria define species?” open-access (DOI: 10.14673/HE2018121037) in the journal Human Evolution following a study of mitochondrial DNA from about 5 million specimens covering about 100,000 animal species. The paper argues that humans are far from special: humanity’s tiny mt DNA differences are “average” in the animal kingdom. Moreover, as with humans, over 90% of animal species today likely originated 100,000–200,000 years ago:https://phe.rockefeller.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Stoeckle-Thaler-Final-reduced.pdf
RealClearScience runs a good article about Stoeckle-Thaler, “What Can ‘DNA Barcodes’ Tell Us About Evolution and Ourselves?”
What Can 'DNA Barcodes' Tell Us About Evolution and Ourselves? | RealClearScience Sorting and defining species is a messy process. Dozens of methods exist and all have their benefits and drawbacks. Surely, taxonomy – the science of classifying organisms – would be so much...
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