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Darwin Comes to Town
Taschenbuch von Menno Schilthuizen
Sprache: Englisch

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We are marching towards a future in which three-quarters of humans live in cities, more than half of the landmass of the planet is urbanized, and the rest is covered by farms,pasture, and plantations. Increasingly, as we become ever more city-centric, species and ecosystems crafted by millions of years of evolution teeter on the brink of extinction - or have already disappeared.

A growing band of 'urban ecologists' is beginning to realize that natural selection is not so easily stopped. They are finding that more and more plants and animals are adopting new ways of living in the seemingly hostile environments of asphalt and steel that we humans have created. Carrion crows in the Japanese city of Sendai, for example, have learned to use passing traffic to crack nuts for them; otters and bobcats, no longer persecuted by humans, are waiting at the New York City gates; superb fairy-wrens in Australia have evolved different mating structures for nesting in strips of vegetation along roads; while distinct populations of London underground mosquitoes have been fashioned by the varied tube line environments.

Menno Schilthuizen shows us that evolution can happen far more rapidly than Darwin had dared dream.
We are marching towards a future in which three-quarters of humans live in cities, more than half of the landmass of the planet is urbanized, and the rest is covered by farms,pasture, and plantations. Increasingly, as we become ever more city-centric, species and ecosystems crafted by millions of years of evolution teeter on the brink of extinction - or have already disappeared.

A growing band of 'urban ecologists' is beginning to realize that natural selection is not so easily stopped. They are finding that more and more plants and animals are adopting new ways of living in the seemingly hostile environments of asphalt and steel that we humans have created. Carrion crows in the Japanese city of Sendai, for example, have learned to use passing traffic to crack nuts for them; otters and bobcats, no longer persecuted by humans, are waiting at the New York City gates; superb fairy-wrens in Australia have evolved different mating structures for nesting in strips of vegetation along roads; while distinct populations of London underground mosquitoes have been fashioned by the varied tube line environments.

Menno Schilthuizen shows us that evolution can happen far more rapidly than Darwin had dared dream.
Über den Autor
Menno Schilthuizen is a Dutch evolutionary biologist, ecologist, and permanent research scientist at Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden and a professor in character evolution and biodiversity at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He has published numerous articles about evolution and ecology and three popular science books.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Fachbereich: Populäre Darstellungen
Genre: Biologie
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781786481085
ISBN-10: 1786481081
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 553289
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Schilthuizen, Menno
Hersteller: Quercus Publishing Plc
Abbildungen: 25x B&W illustrations
Maße: 193 x 128 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Menno Schilthuizen
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.02.2019
Gewicht: 0,284 kg
Artikel-ID: 114638396
Über den Autor
Menno Schilthuizen is a Dutch evolutionary biologist, ecologist, and permanent research scientist at Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden and a professor in character evolution and biodiversity at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He has published numerous articles about evolution and ecology and three popular science books.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Fachbereich: Populäre Darstellungen
Genre: Biologie
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781786481085
ISBN-10: 1786481081
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 553289
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Schilthuizen, Menno
Hersteller: Quercus Publishing Plc
Abbildungen: 25x B&W illustrations
Maße: 193 x 128 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Menno Schilthuizen
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.02.2019
Gewicht: 0,284 kg
Artikel-ID: 114638396
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