Most vertebrate adult body sizes remain constant or increase throughout their lives.  Marine iguanas are different in that they can actually decrease in size, in periods of low food availability.  Examine the data set here, and test the hypothesis that on average across time, iguana length changed (increased) by 1 mm.  Paste your R code in the answer box, and tell me your conclusion.  Data is

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Most vertebrate adult body sizes remain constant or increase throughout their lives.  Marine iguanas are different in that they can actually decrease in size, in periods of low food availability.  Examine the data set here, and test the hypothesis that on average across time, iguana length changed (increased) by 1 mm.  Paste your R code in the answer box, and tell me your conclusion.  Data is here: https://github.com/lisamanne/biostats_data/raw/main/Iguana_lengths.csv

DATA- Tributary,Species_upstream,Species_downstream I��,14,19 Juta�,11,18 Japur�,8,8 Coari,5,7 Purus,10,16 Manacapuru,5,6 Negro,23,24 Madeira,29,30 Trombetas,19,16 Tapaj�s,16,20 Xingu,25,21 Tocantins,10,12

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