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  1. Dark-eyed juncos living in urbanized Los Angeles have shorter bills than juncos in nearby natural areas— but while UCLA was closed for COVID-19 safety, campus juncos evolved longer bills again

    doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2520996122

    #evolution #NaturalSelection #UrbanEvolution #bird

  2. The most interesting in a selective sweep is the shoulders.

    New preprint by the team on the vanishing chromosomal footprint of an anthropogenic introgression of locally favoured foreign genes

    Falling shoulders ahead: adaptive alien genes are maintained amid vanishing introgression footprint in sea squirts. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

    @darwin
    #PopGen #AdaptiveIntrogression #SelectiveSweep #UrbanEvolution #Hybridization
    #AnthropogenicHybridization #AnthropogenicIntrogression