Shrinking before our isles: the rapid expression of insular dwarfism in two invasive populations of guttural toad ( <i>Sclerophrys gutturalis</i> )

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Within the creationist community, there has been recent interest in applying engineering principles to the study of living things. Engineers routinely attempt to maximize certain qualities, such as efficiency and durability, while minimizing others, such as cost of construction, within certain design limits or constraints. Biologists have long suspected that living things are in some sense “optimized” and there is a long history of attempting to understand biological systems in terms of this ...

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Authors: Baxter-Gilbert, J; Riley, JL; Wagener, C; Mohanty, NP; Measey, J

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: The Royal Society
• Journal: Biology Letters
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 11
• Pages: 20200651-20200651
• Publication date: 2020-11-17
• DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2020.0651
• EISSN: 1744-957X
• ISSN: 1744-9561
• Language: English
• Keywords: Population; Dwarfism; Demography; Adaptation (eye); Natural selection; Biology; Toad; Genetics; Zoology; Phenotypic plasticity; Mainland; Ecology