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Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Rapid Evolution Action of Species

"....studies have demonstrated a fast drive toward adaptation that scientists have come to call “rapid evolution.” Researchers who once assumed evolution required millennia are documenting species adapting in mere decades, or even shorter time frames. Mosquitoes that colonized the London Underground in 1863 are now so different they can no longer mate with their above-ground relatives. Chinook salmon from Alaska to California needed just a human generation to become smaller and shorter-lived after an increase in commercial fishing in the 1920s..... most recently, it was found that green anole lizards on islands in Florida’s Indian River Lagoon needed just 20 generations to adapt to an invasion of brown anoles. Driven to higher perches by the invaders, the green anoles became better at clinging to branches by developing larger toepads with more scales — in just 15 years. It’s more evidence of evolutionary change on observable time scales....Adaptation is happening right under our noses, in our lifetimes."
http://discovermagazine.com/2015/march/19-life-in-the-fast-lane

http://listverse.com/2011/11/19/8-examples-of-evolution-in-action/

Faster evolution of humans:
http://samslair.blogspot.com/2016/10/evolution-humans-are-rapidly-changing.html?m=1