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BEACON Researchers at work: Changing environments / changing organisms

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Washington graduate student Peter Conlin. Natural selection produces an organism whose phenotype is well matched to its environment. Under a constant environment there should be a single optimum, … Continue reading

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Phenotypic Plasticity and Evolution

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU postdoc Shampa M. Ghosh. It has been four decades since Thedosius Dobzhansky wrote “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.” It soon became a favorite … Continue reading

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