evolution

Evolutionary Effect: Hunting Pressures Force Species to Evolve, Adapt

Lindsey Blomberg animal, bear, bears, behavior, behavioral, cubs, effect, evolution, fish, Sweden, wildlife

Modern-day hunting practices are affecting the behavior and evolution of various wildlife species.

Global Warming Evolution: Wildlife Shrinkage on the Rise

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer animal, animals, biology, endangered, evolution, Global Change Biology, global warming, marine, science, scientists, shrinkage, species, terrestrial

Scientists credit human-induced global warming with causing many wildlife species to become scrawnier with each successive generation…

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Evolution by You

David Cowley bighorn sheep, Darwin, Darwinian, elephants, evolution, GE, genetic, genetic engineering, GMO, mutations, natural selection, salmon, synthetic biology, University of Washington, Urban Ecology Research Lab, wild, wildlife

Here’s a bold statement for you. We are now in charge of evolution on this planet. Eons of natural selection and chance mutation have surrendered control to the human race, and what we do with it is going to say a lot about who we really are. Don’t scoff, you saw this coming. Who hasn’t […]

Wild & Wooly

Interview: Carl Safina Talks Animal Intelligence

Ethan Goffman animal intelligence, birds, blue ocean, Carl Safina, chimpanzee, cockroach, Cynthia Moss, DNA, emotion, evolution, Iain Douglas-Hamilton, Jane Goodall, sentient, Song for the Blue Ocean, wolf, wolves

Beginning in 1998 with Song for the Blue Ocean, Carl Safina has written numerous books on the state of our oceans and the creatures that inhabit them. He is a recipient of the MacArthur “genius grant” among a host of awards and founder of the Safina Center, which fights for healthy oceans. Safina’s writing appears […]

Wild & Wooly

The Wolf in Our Living Room

Hannah Owen dog, domesticated, evolution, Uppsala University, wolf, wolves

There are a few theories as to how the wolf ended up in our living rooms. One is that 30,000 years ago human settlers stole wolf cubs. They then trained these cubs mainly to protect the settlement from predators, especially against the greatest predator of all, other humans. These cubs would also grow to hunt […]

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Unnatural Selection

E The Environmental Magazine antibiotics, book, Darwin, Darwinism, drugs, Emily Monosson, evolution, natural selection, pesticides, pollution

Gonorrhea. Bed bugs. Weeds. Salamanders. People. All are evolving, some surprisingly rapidly, in response to our chemical age. In Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men, Emily Monosson shows how our drugs, pesticides, and pollution are exerting intense selection pressure on all manner of species. And we humans […]