Assistant Professor of Biology Alex Pyron’s Published Study
Shows the Evolution of Over 4,000 Reptiles
A George Washington University biologist and a team of
researchers have created the first large-scale evolutionary family tree for
every snake and lizard around the globe.
The findings were recently published in the journal BMC
Evolutionary Biology. Alex Pyron, the Robert F. Griggs Assistant Professor of
Biology in GW’s Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, along with researchers
from the City University of New York and Arizona State University, detail the
cataloguing of 4,161 species of snakes and lizards, or squamates.