Different routes to similar ends

Paul H. Harvey () and Linda Partridge ()
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Paul H. Harvey: University of Oxford
Linda Partridge: Galton Laboratory, University College London

Nature, 1998, vol. 392, issue 6676, 552-553

Abstract: An illuminating test case of evolutionary theory comes from a new morphological and molecular analysis of lizards on the islands of the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean. The different'ecotypes' of lizard (that is, species adapted to different environments) on the four islands of the Antilles show a remarkable degree of convergent evolution. That in itself is no great surprise. But the authors also have a more novel finding, in that the order of evolution of the various ecomorphs seems to differ among the islands.

Date: 1998
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