Slow worms react quickly to climate change

Wednesday, April 27, 2016 - 18:30 in Biology & Nature

Evolution can go quickly when it has to – at least for small organisms. Researchers exposed a natural setting in Denmark to artificial climate change and discovered that soil just half a degree warmer caused the genome of small worms to change surprisingly quickly. Can evolution keep up with the current rapid climate change? The […]

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