Evolution in an Urbanizing World
Making the best of a difficult year With a group of other students here at Ohio Wesleyan University, I had successfully written a grant to research the common wall lizard (Podarcis muralis) in the south of France for the summer of 2020. Like so many plans that year, this trip was canceled. While the streets... Continue Reading →
Urban areas around the world are an interesting combination of non-native and native species. In London, urban foxes are a common sight and because of this, we would predict that urban foxes have evolved due to differing selection factors in cities. For mammalogists, examing and comparing skulls is a common way to measure changes that... Continue Reading →
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, plants, and fossils from around the world. The tragedy of the fire that devastated the... Continue Reading →
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