The English Sparrow Has Arrived in Death Valley

Tue Mar 2 16:40:48 CST 2004

Joseph Grinnell, 1919, The English Sparrow Has Arrived in Death Valley:
An Experiment in Nature, American Naturalist 53: 468-472.

* I wonder if anyone knows of a situation earlier than this when museum
specimens were collected in anticipation that they would serve as
controls for measuring future evolutionary change?

fred.
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