Well, I’m back in China. It feels like I just left China, but I guess it’s been almost a year since our epic trip last summer. In the intervening months we were busy analyzing data, and were particularly focused on variation in color and body size measurements from our 14 different Chinese barn swallow populations. Our intuitions from the field were soon confirmed with quantitative data (always a good feeling for a biologist): there are three distinct “phenotypic clusters” of swallows in China.
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