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“In search of the causes of evolution”; a talk from Peter & Rosemary Grant
Peter & Rosemary Grant, made famous for their 40 years of work on Darwin’s Galapagos finches and the Pulitzer Prize-winning book “The Beak of the Finch”, recently visited the University of Toronto to receive honorary doctorates and speak to us on their search of the causes of evolution. Almost as poetically as the quote from the
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Rumex & fieldwork in TX
I recently returned from a BBQ and humidity saturated collection trip in Texas. Accompanying my lab mate, Felix Beaudry, we set out to collect within and between population data on his dioecious, sex-chromosome containing study species, Rumex hastatulus. Unlike most animals, sexual strategies vary along a continuous axis in flowering plants. Sex roles vary between
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Spring ephemerals colour the way
I love spring. It’s the cool breeze, the warm sunshine, and the burst of color that gets me feeling like that little kid exploring and foraging the back 40 at my grandparent’s cottage for wild blueberries. This weekend, a few friends and I from the department headed up to the University of Toronto Koffler scientific reserve located
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Lisbon, Portugal
Botanical highlights of my trip: Stumbling across this massive mustard (Brassica oleracera?) in downtown Lisboa… …Wonder what the unreduced gamete production is like in that fine specimen! Traipsing through never ending fields of Carpobrotus eduli at the westernmost point of Europe, Cabo da Roca. Pretty sweet.
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La Ventana, Baja California Sur
This past christmas I was lucky enough to go down south to visit my parents in Baja. Not only was their enough wind to sweep my windsurfing parents (temporarily) off to sea, but there was some pretty great flora! Got acquainted with some of the local species after a few hikes. Check some of them out:
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