A snapshot of pupfish evolution
Thursday, January 10, 2013 - 15:00
in Biology & Nature
One biologist has bred more than 3,000 hybrid fish in his time as a graduate student in evolution and ecology, a pursuit that has helped him create one of the most comprehensive snapshots of natural selection in the wild and demonstrated a key prediction in evolutionary biology. New research shows that San Salvadoran pupfish are evolving at an explosively faster rate than other pupfish.