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Amid a tropical paradise known as ‘Lizard Island,’ researchers are cracking open evolution’s black box – scientist at work

  • Written by James T. Stroud, Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolution, Georgia Institute of Technology
imageAfter gathering data on the captured anole, the team releases it back to the wild.Neil Losin/Day's Edge Prods.

Every morning in Miami, our fieldwork begins the same way. Fresh Cuban coffee and pastelitos – delicious Latin American pastries – fuel our team for another day of evolutionary detective work. Here we’re tracking...

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