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Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution,Used
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From evolutionary biologist Menno Schilthuizen, a book that will make you see yourself and the world around you in an entirely new way*Carrion crows in the Japanese city of Sendai have learned to use passing traffic to crack nuts.*Lizards in Puerto Rico are evolving feet that better grip surfaces like concrete.*Europes urban blackbirds sing at a higher pitch than their rural cousins, to be heard over the din of traffic.How is this happening?Menno Schilthuizen is one of a growing number of urban ecologists studying how our manmade environments are accelerating and changing the evolution of the animals and plants around us. In Darwin Comes to Town, he takes us around the world for an upclose look at just how stunningly flexible and swiftmoving natural selection can be.With human populations growing, were having an increasing impact on global ecosystems, and nowhere do these impacts overlap as much as they do in cities. The urban environment is about as extreme as it gets, and the wild animals and plants that live sidebyside with us need to adapt to a whole suite of challenging conditions: they must manage in the citys hotter climate (the urban heat island); they need to be able to live either in the semidesert of the tall, rocky, and cavernous structures we call buildings or in the pocketlike oases of city parks (which pose their own dangers, including smog and freerangingdogs and cats); traffic causes continuous noise, a mist of fine dust particles, and barriers to movement for any animal that cannot fly or burrow; food sources are mainly humanderived. And yet, as Schilthuizen shows, the wildlife sharing these spaces with us is not just surviving, but evolving ways of thriving.Darwin Comes toTown draws on eyepopping examples of adaptation to share a stunning vision of urban evolution in which humans and wildlife coexist in a unique harmony. It reveals that evolution can happen far more rapidly than Darwin dreamed, while providing a glimmer of hope that our race toward over population might not take the rest of nature down with us.
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