How drought drives speciation (IMAGE)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

How drought drives speciation

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Each drought event should increase the beak depth, which should in turn drive changes to the Darwin's medium ground finch song (l). The right panel gives a graphical representation of simulated beak changes and a spectrogram showing the corresponding projected changes in vocal performance.

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Podos et al. 2024.

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