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Tag: Gigantism

Posted on March 11, 2015July 13, 2015

I is for Island Evolution

Unbeknownst to the rest of us, a debate has been raging in the world of biogeography.  The debate stems from a simple observation made by a young Canadian scientist in 1964: island animals are weird.  Sometimes they're way bigger than normal, like the Tenerife Giant Rat, and other times they are way smaller than normal, like …

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