MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
Book review by David Quammen, online now @ NYBooks.com for Nov. 8 print issue of NYRB
[....] Evolution by natural selection, as Darwinians believed then, and had believed ever since Darwin stated it, moved “with extreme slowness" [....]
Menno Schilthuizen is a Dutch biologist based at Leiden University, in a country whose population is more urban than rural. In other words, he inhabits the future. His new book, Darwin Comes to Town, implicitly answers Hutchinson and Slobodkin—and Darwin himself—alerting us to contrary evidence about the pace of evolution. By watching the evolutionary play as it runs in urban theaters, not just wildish ones, Schilthuizen and some colleagues—you might think of them as postmodern biologists, making the best of highly urbanized twenty-first-century landscapes—have noticed that evolution’s tempo can be surprisingly brisk [....]
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An amazing evolution story is a Soviet experiment that domesticated foxes. This resulted in dramatic physical and reproductive changes over a very short time. The transformed foxes become closer in appearance to some dog breeds.
https://www.americanscientist.org/article/how-to-tame-a-fox-and-build-a-dog
by rmrd0000 on Wed, 10/31/2018 - 8:43am