March 2011
15 posts
Evolution races to keep up with climate change. →
fuckyeahdevelopmentalbiology:
Climate change may accelerate evolution in some species – but that doesn’t guarantee that threatened populations will cope in the long run. That’s the message of a study that suggests the changing environment is hitting fast forward on evolutionary adaptations.
Arild Husby of the University of Edinburgh, UK, and his team looked at data gathered from a wild...