Red Deer Are Evolving to Give Birth Earlier in a Warming Climate (IMAGE)

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Red Deer Are Evolving to Give Birth Earlier in a Warming Climate

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Red deer hind (Cervus elaphus) and her young calf on the Isle of Rum, Scotland. In this population, red deer have been giving birth earlier and earlier since the 1980s, because of plastic responses to temperatures and because of genetic changes in response to natural selection.

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Sean Morris

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