South Hills Crossbill Coevolves with Rocky Mountain Lodgepole Pine (IMAGE)

University of Nevada, Reno

South Hills Crossbill Coevolves with Rocky Mountain Lodgepole Pine

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The South Hills crossbill coevolved for the past 6,000 years with the Rocky Mountain lodgepole pine. Assistant Professor Tom Parchman in the biology department teamed with C.W. Benkman of the University of Wyoming in a multi-year study of the small finch in the Idaho mountain range.

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Photo by C.W. Benkman, University of Wyoming.

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