For those of you who don’t “believe” in evolution I suggest you check out this blog entry about Podarcis sicula. It’s no Crocoduck, but it’s a great illustration of what evolution is really all about. Take a population, isolate it, change the environment, et voila, something new and different. I wonder what will happen if they introduce some of the new lizard variants back into their original environment. Will they interbreed with the old population? Will they change back to their insect eating ways? Will they revert back to their original configuration? An interesting scenario no matter how you look at it.
Now it comes down to finding out if this is “true” evolution, meaning actual genetic variation. That’s the next step. Hopefully there will be a followup article to let us know the results of that research. Here’s a link to the original article.
