Stickleback Re-Evolution
Jeff VanderMeer • May 16th, 2008 @ 9:22 am • Uncategorized
A great, fascinating io9 post about the changes in the stickleback fish as a result of cleaning up a lake near Seattle. That’s a startlingly short time for a change, but it makes me hope (maybe this hope is baseless, since I’m no scientist) that some species will be able to make adjustments to global warming.
May 16, 2008 at 4:49 pm
There was another interesting report of rapid evolution in vertebrates recently, concerning wall lizards on an island. National Geographic had a reasonable write-up about it:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080421-lizard-evolution.html
The keys seem to be generation, severity of pressure, and appropriate genetic allele diversity.
David