The development of scientific consensus: Analyzing conflict and concordance among avian phylogenies

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Graphical abstractDisplay OmittedHighlights?We assessed the conflict and concordance of Avian relationships through time and against major hypotheses.?More conflicts exist at the base of Neoaves and the basal oscine song birds.?A comprehensive new synthetic avian phylogeny is built with 183 trees and the Open Tree taxonomy.?New phylogenetic studies continue to make significant contribution to avian phylogenetics.AbstractRecent developments in phylogenetic methods and data acquisition have allowed for the construction of large and comprehensive phylogenetic relationships. Published phylogenies represent an en