evolution

#ForewordFriday: Unnatural Selection Edition

Gonorrhea. Bed bugs. Weeds. Salamanders. People. All are evolving, some surprisingly rapidly, in response to our chemical age. In Unnatural Selection, newly available in paperback, Emily Monosson shows how our drugs, pesticides, and pollution are exerting intense selection pressure on all manner of species. And we humans might not like the result.

Life-changing Chemicals

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), in green, with human cell, grey.
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The Value of Mutations

The crested duck is host to a mutation that can be lethal.

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