Researchers use entire islands in the Bahamas to test survival of the fittest

Monday, May 10, 2010 - 10:30 in Biology & Nature

By using entire islands as experimental laboratories, biologists have performed one of the largest manipulations of natural selection ever conducted in a wild animal population. Their results show that competition among lizards is more important than predation by birds and snakes when it comes to survival of the fittest lizard.

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