Sex, speciation and fishy physics
If you've been following our monthly updates, you already know that 2009 is the Year of Science. To celebrate this month's theme, physics and technology, Evo in the News reports on a recent story that highlights how an understanding of basic physics can illuminate evolution going on today, in particular how the physics of light influences sexual selection, speciation, and the collapse of biodiversity with human-caused pollution.
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