Our work as Editor's choice in @evolletters.bsky.social !✨️ Developmental biases & micro- to macroevution in the lizard skull 🦎 academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

A new paper out led by @sridharhalali.bsky.social on eye size evolution in temperate butterflies! Does eye size evolve in response to habitat? Based on an amazing dataset of microCT scans of 443 individuals of 59 spp, Sridhar shows that no, phylogeny explains most! doi.org/10.1093/evle...

Do dim forests select for bigger butterfly eyes? Surprisingly, no. Across 59 species, eye size evolution reflects ancestry and scaling—not ecology. By @sridharhalali.bsky.social and @lepphylo.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/evle...