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Museum Collections are Essential to our Understanding of Urban Evolution
From the Natural History Museum in London to the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, pretty much every major city has a science museum that houses collections of animals,…
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Urban Lizards on TV!
The Smithsonian Channel and Day’s Edge Productions have put together a fantastic mini-series and a full-length documentary on anole evolutionary research. Episode 7 of the miniseries and part of the full-length movie feature urban lizards and urban evolution research by myself and my collaborators,…
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Urban Evolution at SICB
The annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) is almost here! From January 3-7 biologists will convene in Tampa, Florida to share the latest and greatest from a broad range of research areas. Urban evolution talks…
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Urban Genes
Urbanization impacts species in many different ways, including behavior, morphology, and physiology. Although many of the documented phenotypic shifts show evidence of a genetic basis, the actual genetic differences and the genes they occur in are unknown for most urban…
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Auditory Resources for Urban Evolution
No matter what career stage you are in- maybe you just stumbled upon this blog, or maybe your works are being cited in it- vision is arguably the most critical sense for anyone intent on becoming a scientist. We are…
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The Future of Darwin’s Finches with Intensifying Urbanization
Darwin’s finches in the Galapagos are the poster children of adaptive radiation. These birds have formed many species that differ in their beaks. The size and shape of beaks make them uniquely suited to take advantage of different food resources.…
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Tools of the Trade: the Blood Glucose Monitor
One way that animals may adapt to urban environments is by expanding their diet to include anthropogenic food, as discussed in the earlier post “Is Anthropogenic Food Waste Driving the Evolution of Urban Animals?”. But how can we tell if…
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Natural History of Urban Organisms
As the field of urban ecology and evolution advances, one major issue consistently jumps out at me: the lack of information on basic ecology and natural history of many species in urban environments. Such information provides a background for hypothesis…
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