The study, said to be the first in - depth analysis on the acceptance of evolution in this region, has been accepted for
publication in the journal Evolution: Education and Outreach.
The impatient gene It's long been known that
evolution sometimes happens very quickly — as
in the development of resistance to antibiotics
in bacteria — but the discovery that lizards on two islands
in Croatia evolved significant differences
in body type and social structure
in the span of fewer than forty years is shocking enough to warrant
publication in a top - shelf
journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.