{"670436":{"#nid":"670436","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Lizard Study Shows Natural Selection Can Be Extremely Variable Through Time","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBy lassoing lizards, putting tiny chips on their legs, and tracking them for three years, Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/james-stroud\u0022\u003EJames Stroud\u003C\/a\u003E revealed why species often appear unchanged for millions of years despite Charles Darwin\u2019s theory of constant evolution. Darwin said that evolution was constantly happening, causing animals to adapt for survival. But many of his contemporaries disagreed.\u0026nbsp;Everything changed in the past 40 years, when an explosion of evolutionary studies proved that evolution can and does occur rapidly \u2014 even from one generation to the next. Evolutionary biologists were thrilled, but the findings reinforced the same paradox: If evolution can happen so fast, then why do most species on Earth continue to appear the same for many millions of years? Stroud, an assistant professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, set out to investigate it.\u0026nbsp;(This research was also covered at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/living-fossil-lizards-are-constantly-evolving-you-just-cant-see-it\/\u0022\u003EScientific American\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/studyfinds.org\/evolutionary-biology-rules-upended-by-lizards\/\u0022\u003EStudy Finds\u003C\/a\u003E, I\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/indiaeducationdiary.in\/groundbreaking-long-term-lizard-study-challenges-fundamental-tenets-of-evolutionary-biology\/\u0022\u003Endia Education Diary\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bnnbreaking.com\/tech\/science-tech\/study-challenges-traditional-views-on-evolutionary-stasis\/\u0022\u003EBNN Breaking\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/natural-selection-surprises-evolutionary-lessons-from-the-wild-lizards-of-florida\/\u0022\u003ESciTechDaily\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2023\/10\/231009191625.htm\u0022\u003EScienceDaily\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/coexisting-lizards-challenge-what-we-know-about-natural-selection\/\u0022\u003EEarth.com\u003C\/a\u003E, and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/source.wustl.edu\/2023\/10\/no-lizard-is-an-island\/\u0022\u003EWashington University\/St. Louis\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBy lassoing lizards, putting tiny chips on their legs, and tracking them for three years, Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/james-stroud\u0022\u003EJames Stroud\u003C\/a\u003E revealed why species often appear unchanged for millions of years despite Charles Darwin\u2019s theory of constant evolution.\u0026nbsp;Charles Darwin said that evolution was constantly happening, causing animals to adapt for survival. But many of his contemporaries disagreed.\u0026nbsp;Everything changed in the past 40 years, when an explosion of evolutionary studies proved that evolution can and does occur rapidly \u2014 even from one generation to the next. Evolutionary biologists were thrilled, but the findings reinforced the same paradox: If evolution can happen so fast, then why do most species on Earth continue to appear the same for many millions of years? Stroud, an assistant professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, set out to investigate it. (This research was also covered at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/living-fossil-lizards-are-constantly-evolving-you-just-cant-see-it\/\u0022\u003EScientific American\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/studyfinds.org\/evolutionary-biology-rules-upended-by-lizards\/\u0022\u003EStudy Finds\u003C\/a\u003E,\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bnnbreaking.com\/tech\/science-tech\/study-challenges-traditional-views-on-evolutionary-stasis\/\u0022\u003E BNN Breaking\u003C\/a\u003E, I\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/indiaeducationdiary.in\/groundbreaking-long-term-lizard-study-challenges-fundamental-tenets-of-evolutionary-biology\/\u0022\u003Endia Education Diary\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/natural-selection-surprises-evolutionary-lessons-from-the-wild-lizards-of-florida\/\u0022\u003ESciTechDaily\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2023\/10\/231009191625.htm\u0022\u003EScienceDaily\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/coexisting-lizards-challenge-what-we-know-about-natural-selection\/\u0022\u003EEarth.com\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/source.wustl.edu\/2023\/10\/no-lizard-is-an-island\/\u0022\u003EWashington University\/St. Louis\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2023-10-16 13:55:22","changed_gmt":"2024-01-16 18:42:36","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Technology Networks","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.technologynetworks.com\/genomics\/news\/lizard-study-shows-natural-selection-can-be-extremely-variable-through-time-379677","dateline":{"date":"2024-01-16T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2024-01-16T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"193037","name":"James Stroud"},{"id":"7802","name":"evolutionary biology"},{"id":"3028","name":"evolution"},{"id":"13406","name":"Charles Darwin"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}