Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society
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A fully open-access journal covering all aspects of evolutionary biology research!
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Diamonds are Foreverrrrr!
Whilst we're still waiting for the next James Bond to be revealed, scientists have shown how to pinpoint where hybrid events happen in evolutionary networks, including in species with complex histories! Diamond in the rough & all that...🌍 🧪
Whilst we're still waiting for the next James Bond to be revealed, scientists have shown how to pinpoint where hybrid events happen in evolutionary networks, including in species with complex histories! Diamond in the rough & all that...🌍 🧪
Extracting Diamonds: Identifiability of 4-node Cycles in level-1 Phylogenetic Network
Abstract. Phylogenetic networks encode a broader picture of evolution by the inclusion of reticulate processes such as hybridization, introgression or hori
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November 19, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Diamonds are Foreverrrrr!
Whilst we're still waiting for the next James Bond to be revealed, scientists have shown how to pinpoint where hybrid events happen in evolutionary networks, including in species with complex histories! Diamond in the rough & all that...🌍 🧪
Whilst we're still waiting for the next James Bond to be revealed, scientists have shown how to pinpoint where hybrid events happen in evolutionary networks, including in species with complex histories! Diamond in the rough & all that...🌍 🧪
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This #FossilFriday marvel at the presence of Astropanax leaves & pollen in Ethiopia 21.73 million years ago, found in the Mush Valley, providing the earliest evidence for Araliaceae on the African continent! (around the time when ancient rhinos & horses began to evolve)🌍🧪
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November 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM
This #FossilFriday marvel at the presence of Astropanax leaves & pollen in Ethiopia 21.73 million years ago, found in the Mush Valley, providing the earliest evidence for Araliaceae on the African continent! (around the time when ancient rhinos & horses began to evolve)🌍🧪
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special issue on phylogenomic discordance? tinyurl.com/v2eces3s 🧪
Three more summaries added below!
We'll return when more articles come live.
Again, all and any oversimplications are entirely my fault!
special issue on phylogenomic discordance? tinyurl.com/v2eces3s 🧪
Three more summaries added below!
We'll return when more articles come live.
Again, all and any oversimplications are entirely my fault!
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Interested in the @evojlinnsoc.bsky.social
special issue on phylogenomic discordance? tinyurl.com/v2eces3s 🧪
Three more summaries added below!
We'll return when more articles come live.
Again, all and any oversimplications are entirely my fault!
special issue on phylogenomic discordance? tinyurl.com/v2eces3s 🧪
Three more summaries added below!
We'll return when more articles come live.
Again, all and any oversimplications are entirely my fault!
Once upon time, in a land not far away (Greece), dwarf elephants roamed several islands during the Middle-Late Pleistocene! Evolving repeatedly & independently, this study aims to identify whether body size reduction was accompanied by bone remodelling...read more below! 🌍👇
Rib remodeling in fossil insular dwarf and mainland elephants from Greece
Abstract. In the Mediterranean, during the Middle and Late Pleistocene, populations of straight-tusked elephants (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) evolved repeatedl
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November 11, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Once upon time, in a land not far away (Greece), dwarf elephants roamed several islands during the Middle-Late Pleistocene! Evolving repeatedly & independently, this study aims to identify whether body size reduction was accompanied by bone remodelling...read more below! 🌍👇
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Can museum collections help identify a species conservation status? Through a systematic survey of primate specimens at MZUSP, 85 species were identified, with 12 classified as #Endangered & 6 #CriticallyEndangered, highlighting the importance of collections in research! 🌍👇
Mammalian diversity and conservation status of Brazilian primates: insights from a museum collection
Abstract. Brazil harbours one of the highest levels of primate species richness and endemism globally, with its taxonomic diversity extensively documented
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November 10, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Can museum collections help identify a species conservation status? Through a systematic survey of primate specimens at MZUSP, 85 species were identified, with 12 classified as #Endangered & 6 #CriticallyEndangered, highlighting the importance of collections in research! 🌍👇
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Effective conservation relies on accurate research, monitoring & understanding of species. Here, the first comprehensive IUCN Red List assessment of the High Atlas vascular flora has been done, helping to uncover extinction threats to endemic flora! 🧪 🌍 👇
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November 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Effective conservation relies on accurate research, monitoring & understanding of species. Here, the first comprehensive IUCN Red List assessment of the High Atlas vascular flora has been done, helping to uncover extinction threats to endemic flora! 🧪 🌍 👇
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What a cool blog post led by Adam Brachtl !! 🤩
Nice way to disseminate our results on the colonisation and extinction history of an island insect species using genomic data. Thank you! 👻
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Nice way to disseminate our results on the colonisation and extinction history of an island insect species using genomic data. Thank you! 👻
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November 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
What a cool blog post led by Adam Brachtl !! 🤩
Nice way to disseminate our results on the colonisation and extinction history of an island insect species using genomic data. Thank you! 👻
@ipna.csic.es @brentcemerson.bsky.social
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Nice way to disseminate our results on the colonisation and extinction history of an island insect species using genomic data. Thank you! 👻
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New Blog Day! 📣👻
Ghosts of the past come back to haunt the genetic record of island colonisation events, revealing silent extinctions! Written by guest blogger Adam Brachtl, this blog explores how molecular genetics can uncover these hidden stories...(1/6) 🌍🧪👇
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Ghosts of the past come back to haunt the genetic record of island colonisation events, revealing silent extinctions! Written by guest blogger Adam Brachtl, this blog explores how molecular genetics can uncover these hidden stories...(1/6) 🌍🧪👇
www.linnean.org/news/2025/11...
November 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
New Blog Day! 📣👻
Ghosts of the past come back to haunt the genetic record of island colonisation events, revealing silent extinctions! Written by guest blogger Adam Brachtl, this blog explores how molecular genetics can uncover these hidden stories...(1/6) 🌍🧪👇
www.linnean.org/news/2025/11...
Ghosts of the past come back to haunt the genetic record of island colonisation events, revealing silent extinctions! Written by guest blogger Adam Brachtl, this blog explores how molecular genetics can uncover these hidden stories...(1/6) 🌍🧪👇
www.linnean.org/news/2025/11...
Remember remember the 5th of...December?
Islands are central to our understanding of ecology & evolution, from the theory of natural selection to community ecology. This special issue promises to provide a synthesis of the latest research, and there's still time to submit! 🌍 🧪 👇
Islands are central to our understanding of ecology & evolution, from the theory of natural selection to community ecology. This special issue promises to provide a synthesis of the latest research, and there's still time to submit! 🌍 🧪 👇
Evolution on Islands: from genomes to communities
Call for papers “…it is not too much to say that when we have mastered the difficulties presented by the peculiarities of island life we shall find it comparat
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October 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Remember remember the 5th of...December?
Islands are central to our understanding of ecology & evolution, from the theory of natural selection to community ecology. This special issue promises to provide a synthesis of the latest research, and there's still time to submit! 🌍 🧪 👇
Islands are central to our understanding of ecology & evolution, from the theory of natural selection to community ecology. This special issue promises to provide a synthesis of the latest research, and there's still time to submit! 🌍 🧪 👇
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It's #WombatDay! Famed for their cubed poop, these guys have surprisingly similar forelimb myology to koalas...helping to unravel their evolutionary past! Read about it below 👇🌍🧪
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October 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
It's #WombatDay! Famed for their cubed poop, these guys have surprisingly similar forelimb myology to koalas...helping to unravel their evolutionary past! Read about it below 👇🌍🧪
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Darwin's Darwin finches (the island is called Darwin, that's not a typo) have been variably described as either two species, or combined into just one. But what's right? As part of our #SpecialIssue on Evolution on Islands, Peter & Rosemary Grant took to answering this...(1/2) 🌍🧪
October 17, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Darwin's Darwin finches (the island is called Darwin, that's not a typo) have been variably described as either two species, or combined into just one. But what's right? As part of our #SpecialIssue on Evolution on Islands, Peter & Rosemary Grant took to answering this...(1/2) 🌍🧪
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Ahh, Drosophila suzukii, a global pest...and best dressed? Whilst fashion week is over, these guys really put the fly in fruit fly! Known for their body colour plasticity, the role of sexual vs natural selection on their colour diversity was investigated...check it out 👇🧪🌍🦟
Natural selection, rather than sexual selection, plays a dominant role in the formation of body coloration in Drosophila suzukii
Abstract. Drosophila suzukii is a globally distributed pest, and its body colour exhibits notable plasticity. Given the important roles of natural and sexu
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October 16, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Ahh, Drosophila suzukii, a global pest...and best dressed? Whilst fashion week is over, these guys really put the fly in fruit fly! Known for their body colour plasticity, the role of sexual vs natural selection on their colour diversity was investigated...check it out 👇🧪🌍🦟
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New Blog Day! 🐜📣
The acacia fruit doesn't fall far from the evolutionary tree in this new blog, written by guest blogger Josie Cooper! Ever wondered how plants defend themselves from plant-eating predators? In the case of swollen-thorn acacias, the answer is ants...a 🧵 (1/6) 🌍🧪
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The acacia fruit doesn't fall far from the evolutionary tree in this new blog, written by guest blogger Josie Cooper! Ever wondered how plants defend themselves from plant-eating predators? In the case of swollen-thorn acacias, the answer is ants...a 🧵 (1/6) 🌍🧪
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Ants, Acacias, and Breaking the Mould of Niche Conservatism
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October 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
New Blog Day! 🐜📣
The acacia fruit doesn't fall far from the evolutionary tree in this new blog, written by guest blogger Josie Cooper! Ever wondered how plants defend themselves from plant-eating predators? In the case of swollen-thorn acacias, the answer is ants...a 🧵 (1/6) 🌍🧪
buff.ly/Sm4NQsQ
The acacia fruit doesn't fall far from the evolutionary tree in this new blog, written by guest blogger Josie Cooper! Ever wondered how plants defend themselves from plant-eating predators? In the case of swollen-thorn acacias, the answer is ants...a 🧵 (1/6) 🌍🧪
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You shell (not) pass this on...🐚
Genetic inheritance, not plasticity, was shown to drive differences in the shells of Lanistes snails from the Malawi Basin! Experiencing ongoing adaptive radiation, this paper contributed to our Special Issue. Read more below 🌍🧪👇
#molluscmonday
Genetic inheritance, not plasticity, was shown to drive differences in the shells of Lanistes snails from the Malawi Basin! Experiencing ongoing adaptive radiation, this paper contributed to our Special Issue. Read more below 🌍🧪👇
#molluscmonday
Adaptive shell-morphological differences and differential fitness in two morphospecies of Lanistes (Gastropoda: Ampullariidae) from the northern region of the Malawi Basin
Abstract. Environment–phenotype correlations are a central pattern of adaptive radiations, but such correlations and the expected associated reciprocal dif
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October 5, 2025 at 9:45 AM
You shell (not) pass this on...🐚
Genetic inheritance, not plasticity, was shown to drive differences in the shells of Lanistes snails from the Malawi Basin! Experiencing ongoing adaptive radiation, this paper contributed to our Special Issue. Read more below 🌍🧪👇
#molluscmonday
Genetic inheritance, not plasticity, was shown to drive differences in the shells of Lanistes snails from the Malawi Basin! Experiencing ongoing adaptive radiation, this paper contributed to our Special Issue. Read more below 🌍🧪👇
#molluscmonday
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If you're interested in understanding discordance in phylogenomic analyses, the @evojlinnsoc.bsky.social's special issue 'Phylogenomic Discordance: Patterns, Processes, and Solutions' is for you!
tinyurl.com/v2eces3s
I'll be sharing a few articles a week until we're through the issue! (1/n)🧪
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I'll be sharing a few articles a week until we're through the issue! (1/n)🧪
Phylogenomic Discordance: Patterns, Processes, and Solutions
Phylogenomics, the study of evolutionary relationships using genomic data, has revolutionized our understanding of the Tree of Life. As a field, phylogenomics h
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September 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
If you're interested in understanding discordance in phylogenomic analyses, the @evojlinnsoc.bsky.social's special issue 'Phylogenomic Discordance: Patterns, Processes, and Solutions' is for you!
tinyurl.com/v2eces3s
I'll be sharing a few articles a week until we're through the issue! (1/n)🧪
tinyurl.com/v2eces3s
I'll be sharing a few articles a week until we're through the issue! (1/n)🧪
Wass(P)up (fish)?
Adaptive radiations are striking examples of rapid speciation, where lineage diversification often pairs with rapid changes in morphology. But what is the role of intrinsic structural constraints? Here, Pupfish from San Salvador Island were studied...what did they find?
Adaptive radiations are striking examples of rapid speciation, where lineage diversification often pairs with rapid changes in morphology. But what is the role of intrinsic structural constraints? Here, Pupfish from San Salvador Island were studied...what did they find?
September 30, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Wass(P)up (fish)?
Adaptive radiations are striking examples of rapid speciation, where lineage diversification often pairs with rapid changes in morphology. But what is the role of intrinsic structural constraints? Here, Pupfish from San Salvador Island were studied...what did they find?
Adaptive radiations are striking examples of rapid speciation, where lineage diversification often pairs with rapid changes in morphology. But what is the role of intrinsic structural constraints? Here, Pupfish from San Salvador Island were studied...what did they find?
Are you a PhD student ready to publish a paper? Submit your research to our journal today & enter one of our new journal prizes, celebrating PhD student work in #Botany or #Biology !🧪🌍👇
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September 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Are you a PhD student ready to publish a paper? Submit your research to our journal today & enter one of our new journal prizes, celebrating PhD student work in #Botany or #Biology !🧪🌍👇
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Why do some palm clades in Madagascar thrive while others stagnate? Why do some have 1 species, and others 180+? Turns out it's less about that Island Magic & more about inherited traits and timing (when is it not?)! 🌍🧪👇
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Explaining extreme differences in species richness among co-occurring palm clades in Madagascar
Abstract. Imbalance in species richness among related clades is a pervasive, yet incompletely understood feature of biodiversity. Comparison of species-poo
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September 25, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Why do some palm clades in Madagascar thrive while others stagnate? Why do some have 1 species, and others 180+? Turns out it's less about that Island Magic & more about inherited traits and timing (when is it not?)! 🌍🧪👇
doi.org/10.1093/evol...
@linneansociety.bsky.social
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Magic traits may assist sympatric #Ecological speciation, but few examples exist & evidence for their role is rare. Yet, this study found #pleiotropy affected soil preference & flowering time in #Hawea, consistent with speciation!
Check out the full paper 🌍🧪👇
Check out the full paper 🌍🧪👇
Ecological speciation in sympatric palms: 5. Evidence for pleiotropic speciation genes using gene knockout and high-throughput phenotyping
Abstract. Theoretical models predict that sympatric, ecological speciation may be facilitated more readily when so-called ‘magic traits’ are present, linki
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September 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Magic traits may assist sympatric #Ecological speciation, but few examples exist & evidence for their role is rare. Yet, this study found #pleiotropy affected soil preference & flowering time in #Hawea, consistent with speciation!
Check out the full paper 🌍🧪👇
Check out the full paper 🌍🧪👇
Who you gonna call? EVOLUTIONARY SCIENTISTS!
Ghost species (no, not species of ghost) are extinct, unknown & unsampled taxa...and they vastly outnumber those included in phylogenetics. This hidden diversity can complicate phylogenetic signals of horizontal gene flow, impacting their study...(1/2)🧪
Ghost species (no, not species of ghost) are extinct, unknown & unsampled taxa...and they vastly outnumber those included in phylogenetics. This hidden diversity can complicate phylogenetic signals of horizontal gene flow, impacting their study...(1/2)🧪
September 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Who you gonna call? EVOLUTIONARY SCIENTISTS!
Ghost species (no, not species of ghost) are extinct, unknown & unsampled taxa...and they vastly outnumber those included in phylogenetics. This hidden diversity can complicate phylogenetic signals of horizontal gene flow, impacting their study...(1/2)🧪
Ghost species (no, not species of ghost) are extinct, unknown & unsampled taxa...and they vastly outnumber those included in phylogenetics. This hidden diversity can complicate phylogenetic signals of horizontal gene flow, impacting their study...(1/2)🧪
It's #PeerReviewWeek and what better opportunity exists to say a huge thank you to our excellent reviewers from across the globe. It is your hard work & commitment that enables us to continue publishing ground-breaking research in Biology, Botany, Evolution and Zoology. (1/2)
September 17, 2025 at 9:01 AM
It's #PeerReviewWeek and what better opportunity exists to say a huge thank you to our excellent reviewers from across the globe. It is your hard work & commitment that enables us to continue publishing ground-breaking research in Biology, Botany, Evolution and Zoology. (1/2)
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Did you know male wasps can get tricked by orchids into thinking they're females?
Pterostylis orchids use sexual deception as a pollination strategy, with fungus gnats (Diptera) falling victim, acting as the main pollinators of these deceptive plants! 🌍🧪👇
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Pterostylis orchids use sexual deception as a pollination strategy, with fungus gnats (Diptera) falling victim, acting as the main pollinators of these deceptive plants! 🌍🧪👇
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How widespread is pollination by sexual deception of fungus gnats in Pterostylis (Orchidaceae)?
Abstract. Pollination by sexual deception has evolved multiple times in the Orchidaceae, with most known cases involving male Hymenoptera as pollinators. T
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September 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Did you know male wasps can get tricked by orchids into thinking they're females?
Pterostylis orchids use sexual deception as a pollination strategy, with fungus gnats (Diptera) falling victim, acting as the main pollinators of these deceptive plants! 🌍🧪👇
academic.oup.com/botlinnean/a...
Pterostylis orchids use sexual deception as a pollination strategy, with fungus gnats (Diptera) falling victim, acting as the main pollinators of these deceptive plants! 🌍🧪👇
academic.oup.com/botlinnean/a...
How are phylogenetic trees built? Unlike real trees, they don't sprout on their own. Here, Bruce Rannala explores how recombination affects phylogenetic tree building...check out what they found below 🌍🧪👇
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Recombination and Phylogenetic Inference
Abstract. We explore the problem of inferring phylogenetic trees in the presence of recombination. Two widely used approaches are considered: concatenation
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September 16, 2025 at 11:02 AM
How are phylogenetic trees built? Unlike real trees, they don't sprout on their own. Here, Bruce Rannala explores how recombination affects phylogenetic tree building...check out what they found below 🌍🧪👇
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Scientists often use models to study how species evolved, but these models are not always perfect. Here, Ziheng Yang (Darwin Wallace Medal winner) looks at how small changes in data or assumptions can affect the results of these studies. Check it out below 👇🌍🧪
On measures of influence and discordance in phylogenomic analyses
Abstract. As models are approximate descriptions of real biological processes, and data are collected often with errors and contaminations, sensitivity or
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September 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Scientists often use models to study how species evolved, but these models are not always perfect. Here, Ziheng Yang (Darwin Wallace Medal winner) looks at how small changes in data or assumptions can affect the results of these studies. Check it out below 👇🌍🧪
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Speaker Spotlight!
Today we're sharing molecular biologist Glenn Yannic, whose research focuses on the consequences of environmental & anthropogenic changes on the genetic diversity of alpine & arctic species.
Book to see Glenn Nov 20 🌍🧪👇
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Today we're sharing molecular biologist Glenn Yannic, whose research focuses on the consequences of environmental & anthropogenic changes on the genetic diversity of alpine & arctic species.
Book to see Glenn Nov 20 🌍🧪👇
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Hybrid Day Meeting | Organismal Resilience in a Rapidly Changing World
Join us at the Linnean Society for a one-day symposium focused on the mechanisms and consequences of variation in organismal resilience
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September 11, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Speaker Spotlight!
Today we're sharing molecular biologist Glenn Yannic, whose research focuses on the consequences of environmental & anthropogenic changes on the genetic diversity of alpine & arctic species.
Book to see Glenn Nov 20 🌍🧪👇
buff.ly/bLADJcs.?mso...
Today we're sharing molecular biologist Glenn Yannic, whose research focuses on the consequences of environmental & anthropogenic changes on the genetic diversity of alpine & arctic species.
Book to see Glenn Nov 20 🌍🧪👇
buff.ly/bLADJcs.?mso...