I work with a team of biologists, and we spend hour after hour, day after day, in the hot and muggy Florida sun, relentlessly hunting down lizards. And why do we do this? We are collecting data to advance our understanding of how the environment influences the lizard populations, which teaches us things about ecology and evolution. In general, our research starts with a series of very small, man-made islands along a river in Florida. They are small enough that we can capture all the lizards on the island, which means we can track their survival through time, and figure out how many offspring...