Can Evolution Outpace Climate Change? Tiny Seashore Animal Suggests Not

[Tank]

Can Evolution Outpace Climate Change? Tiny Seashore Animal Suggests Not

ScienceDaily (June 8, 2011) — Animals and plants may not be able to evolve their way out of the threat posed by climate change, according to a UC Davis study of a tiny seashore animal. The research is published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

The tide pool copepod Tigriopus californicus is found from Alaska to Baja California -- but in a unique lab study, the animals showed little ability to evolve heat tolerance.

"This is a question a lot of scientists have been talking about," said study co-author Eric Sanford, an associate professor of evolution and ecology at UC Davis and a researcher at the university's Bodega Marine Laboratory. "Do organisms have the ability to adapt to climate change on a timescale of decades?"...

Mass extinctions here we come!

[Will37]

Can Evolution Outpace Climate Change? Tiny Seashore Animal Suggests Not

ScienceDaily (June 8, 2011) — Animals and plants may not be able to evolve their way out of the threat posed by climate change, according to a UC Davis study of a tiny seashore animal. The research is published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

The tide pool copepod Tigriopus californicus is found from Alaska to Baja California -- but in a unique lab study, the animals showed little ability to evolve heat tolerance.

"This is a question a lot of scientists have been talking about," said study co-author Eric Sanford, an associate professor of evolution and ecology at UC Davis and a researcher at the university's Bodega Marine Laboratory. "Do organisms have the ability to adapt to climate change on a timescale of decades?"...

Mass extinctions here we come!

Yeah.  I've pretty well given up hope in any serious political push to deal with climate change.  Fortunately I already have conservative tendencies.  So I'm just going to not have kids and live in sweat, sweat denial while making light of the problem.
















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