Evolution to the rescue: Researchers offer hope that species may adapt quickly to rapid environmental change
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 - 10:30
in Earth & Climate
Evolution is usually thought to be a very slow process, something that happens over many generations, thanks to adaptive mutations. But environmental change due to things like climate change, habitat destruction, pollution, etc. is happening very fast. There are just two options for species of all kinds: either adapt to environmental change or become extinct.