The Evolution Explosion: How Humans Cause Rapid Evolutionary Change
Author: Stephen R. Palumbi Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company Keywords: Popular Drugs ISBN: 0393020118
Book description The first thing that Harvard University biology professor Stephen Palumbi wants you to know is that evolution is a fact, not a theory. The second is this: evolution does not require eons and eons to make its effects manifest. By tinkering with genes and rewriting the laws of natural selection, we humans have lately been "accelerating the evolutionary game, especially among the species that live with us most intimately"-not our pets, that is to say, but the food we eat, the pests that share that food, and the diseases that visit us. Almost all of this accelerated evolution-which, as in the pointed case of the human immunodeficiency virus, occurs faster than we can track it-is an unintended…
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