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Lonesome George, no longer?

Posted on 18 December, 2015 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

Galapagos tortoises summon up images of great, lumbering beasts on idyllic islands that planted the seeds of natural selection in the young naturalist, Charles Darwin. In a recent paper, Poulakakis et al. (2015) provide genetic evidence of two lineages of tortoises … Continue reading →

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