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Evolution of Organisms in Response to Environmental Challenges

Ana Caicedo: Effects of environmental changes on rapid evolution and emergence of conspecific weeds in agricultural environments.

Margery Coombs: Effects of global change on organisms, particularly the habits, diets and biogeography of perissodactyl mammals in deep time.

Elizabeth Dumont: Interplay between feeding behavior and feeding mechanics in the evolution of mammals.

Duncan Irschick: Effects of environmental changes on sexual selection and evolution of physiological response to environmental change.

Jeff Podos: Ecological adaptation, vocal evolution, and species divergence in Galápagos finches.

Margaret Riley: Microbial evolution as timely and telling indicator of environmental change.