2023
Mountains and diversity: why are there so many lizard species in the Caucasus?
Were Charles Darwin and Ernst Mayr correct? A recent study of a diverse lizard genus suggests they were. Charles Darwin first wrote that geographic isolation is an essential precondition of natural selection; he exemplified the pattern with famous Galapagos finches. He supposed that the one finch species had once expanded through the islands of the […]
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