#  Amazonian rainforests play key role in Neotropic diversity 

 





July 23, 2018

 

 

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 Alexandre Antonelli, [Cisneros Visiting Scholar](https://drclas.harvard.edu/people/alexandre-antonelli), and colleagues used information gathered from the natural-history collections of the HUH and the [Museum of Comparative Zoology](https://mcz.harvard.edu/) to publish a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on the origins of tropical America’s rich biodiversity.

 Read the [Gazette article](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/07/study-says-rainforests-gave-birth-to-worlds-most-varied-tropical-region/).

 Read the [PNAS paper](http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/05/08/1713819115).



 

 

 



 

 

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