THE BETTER TO SMELL YOU WITH? Specimens of Peromyscus leucopus noveboracensis, the northern white-footed mouse, collected since 1950 have, on average, longer snouts and broader skulls than those captured before that year. A new study links these changes, and some anatomical changes in other rodents worldwide, to increases in human population density, among other factors.
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