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Eco-change triggers rapid evolution

2013-04-09 08:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

BBC: Changes to their surroundings can trigger "rapid evolution" in species as they adopt traits to help them survive in the new conditions, a study shows. Studying soil mites in a laboratory, researchers found that the invertebrates' age of maturity almost doubled in just 20-or-so generations. It had been assumed that evolutionary change only occurred over a much longer timescale. The findings have been published in the journal Ecology Letters. "What this study shows for the first time is...

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