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'Evolution in the act': Forest lizards reveal rapid adaptation in a warming world

Yale researchers report that Caribbean anole species living deep in closed forest canopies raised their heat tolerance by about 2 degrees Celsius over a decade, while species in open or forest-edge habitats changed little. The team links the difference to behavioral thermoregulation and cautions that such adaptation has an eventual ceiling.


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