Every morning in Miami, our fieldwork begins the same way. Fresh Cuban coffee and pastelitos ' delicious Latin American pastries ' fuel our team for another day of evolutionary detective work. Here we're tracking evolution in real time, measuring natural selection as it happens in a community of Caribbean lizards. As an assistant professor of ecology and evolution at Georgia Tech, my journey with these remarkable reptiles has taken me far from my London roots. The warm, humid air of Miami feels natural now, a far cry from the gray, drizzly and lizard-free streets of my British upbringing. Our research takes place on a South Florida island roughly the size of an American football field ' assuming we're successful in sidestepping the American crocodiles that bask in the surrounding lake. We call it Lizard Island, and it's a special place. Here, since 2015, we've been conducting evolutionary research on five species of remarkable lizards called anoles. By studying the anoles, our team...
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