. Annual report. Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. FACULTY-CURATORS. Jonathan B. Losos Monique and Philip Leiiner Professor for the Study of Latin America Curator of Herpetology Prof. Losos' research focuses on the behavioral and evolutionary ecology of lizards, specifically how lizards interact with their environment and how lizard clades have diversified evolutionarily. Addressing such questions requires integration of behavioral, ecological, functional morphological and phylogenetic studies. His research, with an emphasis on Anolis lizards in the Caribbean Islands, combines
. Annual report. Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. FACULTY-CURATORS. Jonathan B. Losos Monique and Philip Leiiner Professor for the Study of Latin America Curator of Herpetology Prof. Losos' research focuses on the behavioral and evolutionary ecology of lizards, specifically how lizards interact with their environment and how lizard clades have diversified evolutionarily. Addressing such questions requires integration of behavioral, ecological, functional morphological and phylogenetic studies. His research, with an emphasis on Anolis lizards in the Caribbean Islands, combines field observations, laboratory studies of lizard physiology and DNA, and field experiments to study evolutionary changes in nature. Prof. Losos has spent decades conducting fieldwork that charts the evolution of multiple species of lizards in real time. By conducting rigorous biological and behavioral analyses of animals on small isolated islands, Losos has produced detailed empirical scientific evidence documenting how evolution occurs in natural populations. His research has demonstrated rapid changes based on introduced predators, altered competition and even hurricanes, proving that evolution can occur very rapidly and evolutionary biology can, in fact, be an experimental science. The Losos laboratory consists of six postdoctoral researchers, seven graduate students and four undergraduates, as well as a number of visiting foreign graduate students. The lab employs approaches across the disciplines of systematics, ecology, behavior, genetics and functional morphology, taking both observational and experimental approaches in the field and in the laboratory. A major focus has been the evolutionary radiation of Caribbean Anolis lizards, but increasingly the focus of the lab is turning toward the evolution of mainland anoles, as well as other lizard Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readab
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