Tag: Bahamas

  • Nation & World

    Fleeing America

    In “Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World,” historian Maya Jasanoff reveals the lesser-known history of loyalists after the Revolution.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Losos’ lizards give evolutionary clues in island experiments

    Tiny islets in the Bahamas have proven useful laboratories to illustrate natural selection’s effects on island lizards, which saw their legs lengthen, then shorten as ground-dwelling predators drove them into the trees.

    4 minutes