Darwin Comes to Town - Menno Schilthuizen torrent

Category: Adults, Misc. Non-fiction, Science
Language: English
Keywords: Animals Biology Ecology Evolution Nature Urban

Written by Menno Schilthuizen
Read by Chris Nayak
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

For a long time, biologists thought evolution was a necessarily slow process, too incremental to be observed in a lifetime. In Darwin Comes to Town (2018), evolutionary biologist Menno Schilthuizen shows that evolution can in fact happen extremely quickly, and in the strangest of places: the heart of the city.

Menno Schilthuizen is one of a growing number of “urban ecologists” studying how our manmade environments are accelerating the evolution of the animals and plants around us. Cities are extreme environments and, in a world of adapt or die, the wildlife sharing these spaces with us is being forced to adopt fascinating new ways of surviving, and often thriving.