• Evolution 2021! Day 5

    Evolution 2021! Day 5

    The annual Evolution meeting (ASN, SSE, SSB) officially kicked off Monday (virtually)! If you are presenting, consider writing a short summary of your talk for the blog (as we have done in the past for in-person conferences). And if you’re…

  • Evolution 2021! Day 4

    Evolution 2021! Day 4

    The annual Evolution meeting (ASN, SSE, SSB) officially kicked off Monday (virtually)! If you are presenting, consider writing a short summary of your talk for the blog (as we have done in the past for in-person conferences). And if you’re…

  • Evolution 2021! Day 3

    Evolution 2021! Day 3

    The annual Evolution meeting (ASN, SSE, SSB) officially kicked off Monday (virtually)! If you are presenting, consider writing a short summary of your talk for the blog (as we have done in the past for in-person conferences). And if you’re…

  • Urban Observation of the Week: Garden Echidna

    Australia is well known for its wild animals, they are so different than what we non-Aussies are used to seeing. This week, we found an echidna in a garden! These egg-laying mammals are found everywhere in Australia, so it seems…

  • Evolution 2021! Day 2

    Evolution 2021! Day 2

    The annual Evolution meeting (ASN, SSE, SSB) officially kicked off yesterday (virtually)! If you are presenting, consider writing a short summary of your talk for the blog (as we have done in the past for in-person conferences). And if you’re…

  • Evolution 2021! Day 1

    Evolution 2021! Day 1

    The annual Evolution meeting (ASN, SSE, SSB) officially kicks off tomorrow (virtually)! If you are presenting, consider writing a short summary of your talk for the blog (as we have done in the past for in-person conferences). And if you’re…

  • New Lit Alert: Moving to the city: testing the implications of morphological shifts on locomotor performance in introduced urban lizards

    New Lit Alert: Moving to the city: testing the implications of morphological shifts on locomotor performance in introduced urban lizards

    Moving to the city: testing the implications of morphological shifts on locomotor performance in introduced urban lizards Princeton L Vaughn, Wyatt Mcqueen, Eric J Gangloff Abstract Understanding how morphology affects performance in novel environments and how populations shift their morphology…

  • New Lit Alert: What is known – and not known – about acoustic communication in an urban soundscape

    New Lit Alert: What is known – and not known – about acoustic communication in an urban soundscape

    What is known – and not known – about acoustic communication in an urban soundscape Elizabeth P Derrberry & David Luther Abstract Urban environments have some of the most highly modified soundscapes on the planet, affecting the way many animals communicate…

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