Paper for discussion 1

Natural selection in the wild

Uta stansburiana, the side-blotched lizard, © David Kaposi
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Question for tutorial

“Why manipulate traits in field studies of natural selection?”

Required reading

Sinervo, B., P. Doughty, R. B. Huey, and K. Zamudio. 1992. Allometric engineering: a causal analysis of natural selection on offspring size. Science 258: 1927-1930.

Additional, optional references

Endler, J. A. 1986. Natural selection in the wild. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton.

 

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