Evolution of Lizards: A New Study Reveals the Patterns and Drivers of Adaptation and Speciation

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?

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