After Hurricanes Irma and Maria hit the Caribbean, only longer-toed anole lizards survived on the island of Turks and Caicos. Host Marco Werman speaks to Harvard researcher Colin Donihue who just published a paper on this hurricane-induced natural selection in the journal Nature.
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