Urban ecologists document evolution in action (NYTimes)

MEMORABLE QUOTES:

“The amount of differences you see among populations of mice in the same borough [of NYC] is similar to what you’d see across the whole southeastern United States”

“We get police called on us a lot,” said Dr. Munshi-South, an assistant professor at Baruch College. “Sometimes with guns drawn.”

“One hazard of urban evolutionary biology, said Dr. Dunn, is having your aspirator mistaken for a piece of drug paraphernalia.”