Can Evolution Outpace Climate Change? Tiny Seashore Animal Suggests Not (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110608161539.htm)
QuoteScienceDaily (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!
Quote from: Tank on June 09, 2011, 01:45:21 PM
Can Evolution Outpace Climate Change? Tiny Seashore Animal Suggests Not (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110608161539.htm)
QuoteScienceDaily (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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