A Crystal Ball for Evolution
Long-term evolution may be more predictable than we assumed. The post A Crystal Ball for Evolution appeared first on Nautilus.
by Katharine Gammon
May 28, 2024
3 minutes
Evolution is happening all the time, all around us. It can reshape entire populations of a species in a wink of time—just a couple of generations.
Take Darwin’s finches, which are mostly native to the Galapagos Islands. In the 1970s, Peter and Rosemary Grant, Princeton University evolutionary biologists, famously carried out some of the first studies to demonstrate evolution in action in these island birds. Alternating periods of drought and El Niño flooding
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