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biologist, writer. assistant professor @montanastate. bylines @LAReviewofBooks, @highcountrynews, elsewhere
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Genomic Evidence for Local Adaptation to Elevation and Climate Sheds New Light on Variable Responses to Global Change in American Pikas (Ochotona princeps)

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By Erik Beever, Ethan Linck, Elizabeth Osterhoudt
| Wiley Online Library Verified
Local adaptation is a key mechanism permitting species to accommodate diverse or changing environmental conditions across their geographic range (Meek et al. 2023). Intraspecific adaptive variation complements phenotypic plasticity (e.g., in diel activity schedules, diet components, use of microrefugia), being eurytopic (i.e., having wide niche breadths), and dispersal as fundamental alternative strategies to cope with challenging conditions (Thurman et al. 2020).
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'De-extinction' isn't real, but the conservation questions it raises are

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By Ethan Linck
| National Observer Verified
Burgum's interest comes at a perilous time for the Endangered Species Act, which is currently in the crosshairs of the second Trump administration. A January executive order sought to resurrect the "God Squad," a committee empowered to overrule the law when species protections prevent development.
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‘De-extinction’ isn’t real, but the conservation questions it raises are

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By Ethan Linck, Gretchen King Verified
| High Country News Verified
What was the dire wolf? Like many species lost before living memory and known only from remains, the 1854 discovery of a jawbone from this extinct North American predator was more suggestion than revelation. “Certain naturalists may regard the fossil as an indication of a variety only of the Canis lupus,” or gray wolf, wrote paleontologist Joseph Leidy, describing what he tentatively called Canis primaevus.
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