After hurricanes, long-toed lizards survived

Thursday, July 26, 2018 - 12:00am

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After Hurricanes Irma and Maria hit the Caribbean, only longer-toed anole lizards survived on the island of Turks and Caicos. Host Marco Werman speaks to Harvard researcher Colin Donihue who just published a paper on this hurricane-induced natural selection in the journal Nature.

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