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Anderson Lab

Comparative Functional Morphology, Biomechanics & the Physiology of Movement

University of South Dakota, Department of Biology

Latest News:

November 2025 - Gene received a $750 Graduate Research and Creative Scholarship grant from the USD Graduate School for his dissertation research on miniaturization in chameleons!

October 2025 - Chris published a paper with 51 coauthors in American Naturalist on limb loss in wild lizards and how many of these can perform just as well as intact individuals!

- Sydney was awarded a $750 CURCS mini-grant for her

research on lateralization in chameleons!

September 2025 - Chris gave an invited seminar to the

University of the Witwatersrand, School of Animal,

Plant and Environmental Science!

August 2025 - Chris published a paper in

Current Biology looking at convergence in the

evolution of a linear actuator powering

tongue projection in chameleons and

salamanders!

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