Talk:Hermon Carey Bumpus

His famous observations on sparrows
No, I'm not joking. Hermon Bumpus in 1896 made a famous study of natural selection in sparrows. A flock of House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) had been knocked downed by a storm. Some were dead, others barely survived. Bumpus took all of them as specimens, and measured them all. From this he could conclude, for example that females of intermediate size were more likely to survive, while large males were more likely to survive. The example has in recent decades become famous as a pioneering study of natural selection on measurable traits.

Someone should add a section on this (I'm busy and can't). Felsenst (talk) 04:10, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

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