<cue up my father's story about the Alaskan bush pilot he saw who had repaired the leading edge of his wing with sheet aluminum and pop rivets> Tho to be fair, Alaskan bush pilots aren't just a breed apart, but have achieved full speciation from typical GA pilots.
christoph: thus starts speciation... 😉
How does biodiversity arise? And how can it be maintained, esp in the face of environmental change? Biodiversity arises thru speciation and adaptation to local environments.
Adorable, but only a tiny, relict people compared to the hundreds of millions of years of trilobite speciation!
de Vega and colleagues argue this raises the question of whether we are looking at one species, or a case of cryptic speciation in progress.
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Please send me your favorite paper (can be your own) that highlights an important taxonomic group within Actinopterygii and some aspect about their biology, like unusual reproductive mode, interesting speciation, novel traits, interesting distributions in Maryland, cool behaviors, etc (2/3)
I never considered the Zoras cute until ‘Echoes of Wisdom’, but somebody is going to have to explain to me the sympatric speciation that has occurred between the Sea Zoras and the River Zoras.
What annoys me is: Dawkins gave one of the great descriptions of speciation. Talking about birds that live on both sides of Lake Tahoe; at the north end of the lake they can interbreed but not at the south because they speciate as the habitat moves south. Now think of the lake as a period of time.
Congratulations to 2024 AOS Kessel Fellowship recipient Dr. Glaucia (Glau) Del-Rio, the Assistant Curator of Ornithology at the University of Florida, for her project: “The role of mitonuclear evolution in the speciation of Amazonian birds” #AOSgrantsamericanornithology.org/aos-awards-f...
