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Evolution gets busy in the urban lab

An animal is said to be in an evolutionary illusion or trap when it does something it has evolved to do, but at the wrong time or in the wrong place. The concept may help explain why so many squirrels get squashed on city streets, says Joel Brown, an ecologist at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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