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Understanding how reproductive isolation evolves remains a central goal of speciation research. The increasing availability of genomic data has transformed the field, resulting in research dominated by genomic approaches, but is this a good thing? Here, this question is evaluated 👇🧪

The identity crisis of speciation genomicsAbstract. Understanding how reproductive isolation (RI) evolves remains a central goal of speciation research. Quantifying RI is challenging, and researchedoi.org

Renowned Evolutionary biologists Peter & Rosemary Grant are back with new research on adaptive radiation in Geospiza finches on Daphne Major, looking at the long term impacts of hybridization on 3 species of ground finch! You can read the full paper below 👇 🧪 (1/2) doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Fission, fusion and the generation of novelty in Geospiza species on Daphne Major Island, GalápagosAbstract. Early stages in the adaptive radiation of Darwin’s finches are characterized by divergence (fission) and convergence (fusion) caused by natural sdoi.org

Angry birds?? Island geographic isolation is a known phenomenon, but sometimes isolated species may have secondary contact down the line. This happened to 2 species of honeyeater on the Soloman Islands, resulting in aggression between sympatric individuals! Read it below 🧪👇 doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Batty for island biodiversity? Caribbean islands are biodiversity hotspots, but with great diversity comes great extinction as only a few species survived. Here, the impact of body size & island features on the survival of 479 bat populations were studied...a short 🧵 (1/2)

Methods and Tools! 📣 Quantitative traits can provide insights into phenotype evolution across species, yet standard methods often assume a single species tree. Introducing Spinney: a model & software that explicitly includes gene tree heterogeneity into rate estimation! 🌍🧪

Estimating the rate of quantitative trait evolution in the presence of gene tree discordance by calculating likelihoods across treesAbstract. Quantitative traits provide insights into how phenotypes evolve across species. However, standard comparative methods often assume a single specidoi.org

Tiny Chameleons! By looking at gene family evolution in two South African dwarf chameleons with contrasting forested vs open-canopy habitats, researchers revealed habitat-specific lineages differ in the functional categories genes display across families! doi.org/10.1093/evol... 🌍🧪👇

Call for Writers! 📣 Are you a student or early career researcher? Science communicator? Know someone who is? We're looking for our next round of Guest Bloggers for our journal blog The Paper Trail! Check out our vacancies page to apply, and read some of our latest posts here: buff.ly/7JVQmSx 🧪 🌍

Happy #VolunteersWeek! Rosie Ryland, graduate ecologist at Arbtech, is our spotlight today, having written a blog for The Paper Trail about anole adaptations in the Andes and featuring in our membership magazine The Linnean! You can read her blog below 👇 🧪 🌍 www.linnean.org/news/2025/06...

Have a methods paper you want to submit? We've just expanded our scope to include submissions advancing methods in evolutionary biology! Publish with us to help shape the future 👇🌎🧪

Are you a sucker for catfish? You're in luck! Here, the evolutionary innovation of fused molariform pharyngeal jaws in suckermouth catfish is explored, helping to uncover whether these fancy mouths opened up new feeding opportunities in loricariid catfishes! 🧪 🌍 👇 doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Why not publish your research with a Society Journal? 🧪🌍 The Linnean Society is committed to publishing high-quality and ground-breaking scientific research across the four themes of botany, zoology, biology and evolution, striving to make these accessible & engaging to a global audience. 🧵(1/4)

Seed size is known to evolve predictably on islands, but the role of biotic & abiotic factors during early colonisation remains a mystery. Here, functional analyses of dispersal types has grown our understanding, highlighting the role of geographic, climatic & ecological factors! 🧪🌍 buff.ly/OcZd8zY

Integrating functional and trait-based models to explain seed size variation on islands in the New Zealand regionAbstract. Seed size is known to evolve predictably on islands, yet the biotic and abiotic factors that filter seed size during the earliest stages of colondoi.org

Arctic charr you aware of the role of reproductive barriers in asymmetric reproductive isolation (RI)? Probably not, as a lot remains to be understood about the processes of RI during species divergence! Here, using (you guessed it) Arctic charr, questions begin to be answered...🧪🌍👇 buff.ly/ze75MrH

Twenty five years on from Dolph Schluter's book "The Ecology of Adaptive Radiation" that reshaped the way adaptive radiation was studied, this review revisits key questions raised to evaluate the progress made over the past quarter century, 8 of which remain unresolved...🌍🧪👇

‘The ecology of adaptive radiation’ revisited: A 25-year reflectionAbstract. Twenty-five years ago, the book The Ecology of Adaptive Radiation by Dolph Schluter presented a testable framework that integrated ecology, genetdoi.org

Ever wondered how we understand the processes shaping biodiversity? The answer lies in rates of molecular evolution. Many hypotheses about causal relationships have been made, linking life-histories to mutations, DNA repair & fixation. Here, a shift in focus is proposed...🌍🧪 doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Revisiting the determinants of molecular evolutionary rate variationAbstract. Rates of molecular evolution are key parameters for understanding the processes shaping biological diversity. These rates vary among lineages anddoi.org

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Processes of evolution can change over time, resulting in compositional & exchange rate tree heterogeneity...curious to know what the means for phylogenetics? Check out this paper 👇🌍🧪 doi.org/10.1093/evol...

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Check out our latest journal cover, provided by Peter & Rosemary Grant linking to our #SpeicalIssue "Evolution on Islands"! Want your image to feature on our cover? Submit a paper with us today 👇🧪🌍 academic.oup.com/evolinnean/p...

Why not publish your research with a Society Journal? 🧪🌍 The Linnean Society is committed to publishing high-quality and ground-breaking scientific research across the four themes of botany, zoology, biology and evolution, striving to make these accessible & engaging to a global audience. 🧵(1/4)