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How Boundaries Become Bridges in Evolution

Aug. 10, 2020

The evolution of colorful feathers shines light on the missing link in evolution by natural selection, according to new University of Arizona research

Read more in UA News

Study: One-Third of Plant and Animal Species Could be Gone in 50 Years

Feb. 12, 2020

University of Arizona researchers studied recent extinctions from climate change to estimate the loss of plant and animal species by 2070.

Read more at UANews

Save the Giants, Save the Planet

Feb. 4, 2020

Protecting large animals such as elephants and whales, and large plants like the sequoias, has a disproportionate positive impact on the health of the planet and resilience to climate change.

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Events & Seminars

12:30 p.m. Tuesday

"Kleiber’s law emerges from the scaling of branch volume in a global dataset of LiDAR-scanned trees," by Adam Chmurzynski (Enquist Lab)

Tuesday Seminar 12:30pm | Zoom

12:30 p.m. Tuesday

"Inference from Models - The example of Swarms and Flocks," by Stefan Popp (Dornhaus Lab)

Tuesday Seminar 12:30pm | Zoom

3 p.m. Feb. 8, 2021

"Evolutionary approaches to understanding and fighting SARS-CoV-2” by Michael Worobey (University of Arizona)

Monday Seminar, 3-4pm | Host: EEB

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