Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Carnival of Evolution #72

Hi everybody!  Carnival of Evolution #72 is now up!  Our contribution is Kiyoko Gotanda’s post about  spatiotemporal variation in guppy color; check it out for an interesting tale of how guppies have evolved over time in different locations, and what these patterns tell us about selection in the wild.


Guppies!  Photo: Paul Bentzen.

The Carnival has lots of other interesting posts in it, but it doesn’t really have a theme this month, so instead of my usual theme-based picture, I will leave you with a post by Alex Wild that I particularly enjoyed:

Alex Wild, Compound Eye
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