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John Hawks Anthropology Weblog
This is a doofy story running on MSNBC without an author byline: "Shrinking of Scottish sheep tied to warming". Why do I say "doofy"? Take a look at the way it describes natural selection: The study upends the belief that natural s...
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Scottish sheep are shrinking! Each new generation of sheep on the Scottish island of Hirta are smaller than the last. Shorter, warmer winters, caused by climate change, are tampering with normal sheep evolution. Professor Tim Coulso...
AmericaBlog.com
Mother nature always knows.The case involves a rare herd of wild sheep on the remote Scottish island - known in Scottish Gaelic as Hirta - that are refusing to bow to conventional evolutionary pressure, which says big is best. Inste...
NYT: Health
On a remote Scottish island, the sheep are shrinking, and the cause appears to be the warming of winter. ...
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