This week: a look at a globalist rodent...
A few years ago I clambered into some of the remoter corners of New York City's parks with the biologist Jason Munshi-South. I watched him study the city's wildlife, seeking to understand how New York was sculpting evolution. Out of that experience came an article for the New York Times.
I've followed Munshi-South's work ever since, and this week I wrote up his latest study. Recently Munshi-South and his colleagues took a look at the DNA of New York City's rats, trying to figure out where they came from. Ultimately, that question led them to ask how brown rats conquered the world. (Image: Wikipedia)
January 28-29, 2017 Rancho Mirage Writers Festival
March 2-3, 2017 San Diego. The Future of Genome Medicine. Details here.
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