Question

In 1971, biologists moved five adult pairs of Italian wall lizards from their home island of Pod Kopiste, in the South Adriatic Sea, to the neighboring island of Pod Mrcaru. Now, an international team of researchers has shown that introducing these small, green-backed lizards, Podarcis sicula, to a new environment caused them to undergo rapid and large-scale evolutionary changes. Design a study to test whether natural selection was occurring differently on the lizard characteristics in the two populations. Explain what you would do, list your independent and dependent variables and what types of results you would expect from your study if natural selection was acting differently in the two populations

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