#  Turtles traversing an adaptive landscape 

 





May 02, 2019

 

 

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 Blake Dickson's fabulous work on turtle humeri adpative landscapes is now out in Evolution! The research aimed to investiage whether or not the shape of humeri reflect functional trade-offs of living and moving in different environemnts. The answer: YES! Blake performed a truely integrative study that combined 3D shape analysis, with finite element modeling and adaptive landscapes. The work provides a significant advancement on building morpho-functional adaptive landscapes that is sure to stimulate lots of follow-on work.

 Dickson, D.V., and S.E. Pierce. 2019.[“Functional performance of turtle humerus shape across an ecological adaptive landscape."](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/evo.13747) Evolution doi:10.1111/evo.13747

   ![TurtleLandscape](/sites/g/files/omnuum5771/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/spierce/files/turtlelandscape.jpg?itok=S3X25Cys) 

 



 

 

 



 

 

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