Anderson Feijó
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Urban selection on phenotype: Decreased tooth length in chipmunks, flatter skulls in voles.
Feijo et al 2025 @sicb.bsky.social Limited cranial shifts in city-dwelling #rodents after a century of urbanization
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
📷https://phys.org/news/2025-06-chicago-rodents-evolving-city.amp
Feijo et al 2025 @sicb.bsky.social Limited cranial shifts in city-dwelling #rodents after a century of urbanization
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
📷https://phys.org/news/2025-06-chicago-rodents-evolving-city.amp
July 4, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Urban selection on phenotype: Decreased tooth length in chipmunks, flatter skulls in voles.
Feijo et al 2025 @sicb.bsky.social Limited cranial shifts in city-dwelling #rodents after a century of urbanization
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
📷https://phys.org/news/2025-06-chicago-rodents-evolving-city.amp
Feijo et al 2025 @sicb.bsky.social Limited cranial shifts in city-dwelling #rodents after a century of urbanization
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
📷https://phys.org/news/2025-06-chicago-rodents-evolving-city.amp
Reposted by Anderson Feijó
Thumbs are cool and all, but have you ever thought about how important thumbnails are? They just might have been the key to rodents' evolutionary success. That and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
September 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Thumbs are cool and all, but have you ever thought about how important thumbnails are? They just might have been the key to rodents' evolutionary success. That and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
Reposted by Anderson Feijó
Our paper on rodent thumbnails is out! Big team effort, powered by museum collections. Turns out, nails can reveal a lot about rodent evolution. Shoutout to Dr. Gordon Shepherd for the wild idea to study rodents thumbs!
New findings in Science suggest that rodents owe much of their evolutionary success to their thumb-nail (the first digit, D1), an adaptation that gave them dexterous hands for cracking seeds and nuts.
Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/46caVho
Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/46caVho
September 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Our paper on rodent thumbnails is out! Big team effort, powered by museum collections. Turns out, nails can reveal a lot about rodent evolution. Shoutout to Dr. Gordon Shepherd for the wild idea to study rodents thumbs!