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Humans Are Now Causing Species To Artificially Evolve

Humans Are Now Causing Species To Artificially Evolve

by The Daily Eye Team July 2 2016, 10:43 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 26 secs

But man-made ecological damage doesn’t always come in the form of extinctions. Instead of succumbing to the pressures of human activity, some species are rapidly evolving. This relatively new—and deceptively catastrophic—adaptation, called “human-mediated speciation,” was explored in a study published this week in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
When a plant, animal, or bacteria undergoes “speciation,” its evolutionary lineage will split off into two or more unique gene pools.

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