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Tropical Andes are an amazing place! You can walk through exuberant cloud forest and found Sphagnum swamps, scrubs full of epiphytes on outcrops of white sand, patches of Chusquea, and reach to the summit with elfin forest and paramo 🧵. #cienciacriolla @RainforestPrtnr
Sphagnum swamp
Chusquea 💀
Ok people, the current hype in #Science around #Archaeology research in #Chiribiquete and #LaLindosa in #Colombia, albeit deserving, it's a clear example of how scientific discovery is colonised and monopolised. We need to have an awkward conversation 1/n
observer.com/2020/11/prehis…
observer.com/2020/11/prehis…
As a Colombian expat in #Science, I was always surprised with how places like Chiribiquete were pretty much unknown overseas, considering their scientific, cultural and biological value, and that almost any Colombian has heard about them 2/n
The last couple of weeks I started an increasing trend of people in "developed countries" talking about discoveries of ancient paintings in the Amazon, and managed to trace back the source to this paper from April 3/n
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
I'm thrilled to present my first first-author paper on the evolution of gigantism in the #capybara, the world's largest rodent! 😃 Thanks to co-authors @CrawfordAJ @eenork @frozenzoo @OfficialSMBE #MBE #cienciacriolla 🧶👇 1/21 bit.ly/3mmgqlp 
Body size evolution is central in biology. We know that body size co-evolves with many organismal traits (e.g. longevity, home range 🏠, generation time ⏰, predation risk, organ allometries 💪, etc.) within and between spp.
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Yet, we know little about how body size itself evolves 🧐. For instance, body size in mammals varies over 8 orders of magnitude! 🤯
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