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  • Finches To The Front?

    The Real Story of Darwin and the Galapagos​ As a fan of Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History podcast, I thought I’d try my hand at revisiting just-so stories and misinterpreted tales in my own field.​ Like everything in ecology, I come back to evolution, and like everything in modern evolutionary thought, I come back to Darwin.…

  • Why Watching Matters

    Why Watching Matters

    Table of Contents: The study of animal behaviour is unlike many other areas of biology. The scale at which we look at it is inherently about watching. Of course, behaviour may ultimately be rooted in the genome. But, what we often find most interesting about it exists in the here and now: a lot of…