Wild animals are evolving faster than anybody thought
- Written by Timothée Bonnet, Researcher in evolutionary biology (DECRA fellow), Australian National University
ShutterstockHow fast is evolution? In adaptive evolution, natural selection causes genetic changes in traits that favour the survival and reproduction of individual organisms.
Although Charles Darwin thought the process occurred over geological timescales, we have seen examples of dramatic adaptive evolution over only a handful of generations. The p...
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