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Stress Hormones Do Not Reflect Urbanization in Birds and Other Reptiles
Life in the city is stressful, for humans and wildlife! One of the main physiological traits thought to be impacted by the novel pressures of urban life, such as noise and light pollution, is stress hormone concentration. Nevertheless, no patterns…
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Why Participate in Science Communication? + Urban Evolution Teaching Resource
When I began grad school, I set a goal: for my parents to understand the basics of my research. Neither have a background in science or research. [socialpoll id=”2647412″] Over the past two years they’ve heard me yammer on about…
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In light of recent events, particularly the murder of George Floyd, harassment of Christian Cooper, and unjust actions against protesters supporting the #BlackLivesMatter movement, we at LITC want to acknowledge the systematic oppression and racism that exists in our field.…
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Urbanization Leads to Widespread Genetic Connectivity in Pigeons
Urbanization is rapidly transforming the Earth leading to drastic changes in the local ecological communities and changing the evolutionary dynamics of organisms living within cities. Previous research has shown that urbanization can prohibit, facilitate, or have little effect on gene…
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Conserving Urban Biodiversity Needs an Evolutionary Mindset
A variety of species – animals, plants, fungi, microbes – share our cities with us. Some we love, some we hate, and some we hardly notice. Some of these species existed naturally before we built cities. Some were obliterated during…
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Lighting Up Anoles at Night!
This week we are cross-posting (again) from Anole Annals. Check out the original post here, written by Pavitra Muralidhar. How we perceive and interact with the world is strongly shaped by natural light. How much light there is at a…
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Tolerance to Urbanization is Widespread in Anoles
This week we are cross-posting from Anole Annals. Check out the original post here. Seven years ago I asked for the help of Anole Annals readers as I started to think about how different species of anoles throughout the Caribbean…
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Urban Evolution in the Press!
Recently, our research has been center stage in a number of different platforms! There was a documentary, Darwin in Times Square- the Science of Urban Evolution, that went live last week (if you live in France and Germany). There was…
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