Islands🏝️+ mammals🐘🐃🐭+ body size evolution⚖️+ extinctions 🦤 Excited to share our paper ‘Dwarfism and gigantism drive human-mediated extinctions on islands’, published today in @ScienceMagazine @NewsfromScience #ScienceResearch science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… a🧵👇
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Islands are unique evolutionary arenas🏝️ In response to the special characteristics of island environments, many organisms undergo remarkable evolutionary changes (e.g., dwarfism & gigantism). 📷: Palaeoloxodon falconeri & Nuralagus rex (credit: Nils Braun) 🧵/2