New research highlights the plight of lizards due to the widespread loss of trees. The study has revealed that the combined stress of deforestation and climate change will negatively impact up to 84 percent of North America’s lizards by the end of the century.
Everything changed in the past 40 years, when an explosion of evolutionary studies proved that evolution can and does occur rapidly 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?