The many branches reflect evolutionary diversity in response to new or changed circumstances.
Rather, we need to more broadly survey the evolutionary diversity of mainland anoles, to find out which patterns are the norm, and which are the exceptions.
For example, in 2011 a study of 504 languages by New Zealand biologist Quentin D. Atkinson suggested that the number of phonemes a language contains may be an index of evolutionary diversity.
Enforced inbreeding serves to fix and maintain successful strains; outbreeding provides evolutionary diversity that may facilitate habitat or range expansion or may serve to provide flexibility for environmental changes.
Their findings showed that evolutionary diversity makes a difference!
This alone, however, only increases the number of species it does not necessarily increase evolutionary diversity.
Fig. 11 Ecosystems populated with organisms of greater evolutionary diversity produce more biomass.
Evolutionary diversity can be driven by the interaction of plants with different environments.
The Smithsonian is already devoting $10 million a year toward genomics research in evolutionary, diversity, conservation, and ecological studies.
Assessing the genetic architecture of this widespread monotypic genus reveals cryptic evolutionary diversity that merits subspecific recognition.
In addition, we point to the importance of studying the evolutionary diversity of enzymes in primary metabolism.
