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Menno Schilthuizen Darwin Comes to Town (Paperback)
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- Darwin Comes to Town : How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution
- Publication Name
- Darwin Comes to Town
- Title
- Darwin Comes to Town
- Subtitle
- How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 125012784X
- EAN
- 9781250127846
- ISBN
- 9781250127846
- Publisher
- Picador
- Genre
- Science
- Topic
- Life Sciences / Evolution, Life Sciences / General, General
- Release Date
- 02/04/2019
- Release Year
- 2019
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 1.3in
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Item Width
- 5.3in
- Item Weight
- 10.1 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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From evolutionary biologist Menno Schilthuizen, a book that will make you see yourself and the world around you in an entirely new way *Carrion crows in the Japanese city of Sendai have learned to use passing traffic to crack nuts. *Lizards in Puerto Rico are evolving feet that better grip surfaces like concrete. *Europe's urban blackbirds sing at a higher pitch than their rural cousins, to be heard over the din of traffic. How is this happening? Menno Schilthuizen is one of a growing number of "urban ecologists" studying how our manmade environments are accelerating and changing the evolution of the animals and plants around us. In Darwin Comes to Town , he takes us around the world for an up-close look at just how stunningly flexible and swift-moving natural selection can be. With human populations growing, we're having an increasing impact on global ecosystems, and nowhere do these impacts overlap as much as they do in cities. The urban environment is about as extreme as it gets, and the wild animals and plants that live side-by-side with us need to adapt to a whole suite of challenging conditions: they must manage in the city's hotter climate (the "urban heat island"); they need to be able to live either in the semidesert of the tall, rocky, and cavernous structures we call buildings or in the pocket-like oases of city parks (which pose their own dangers, including smog and free-rangingdogs and cats); traffic causes continuous noise, a mist of fine dust particles, and barriers to movement for any animal that cannot fly or burrow; food sources are mainly human-derived. And yet, as Schilthuizen shows, the wildlife sharing these spaces with us is not just surviving, but evolving ways of thriving. Darwin Comes toTown draws on eye-popping examples of adaptation to share a stunning vision of urban evolution in which humans and wildlife co-exist in a unique harmony. It reveals that evolution can happen far more rapidly than Darwin dreamed, while providing a glimmer of hope that our race toward over population might not take the rest of nature down with us.
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Picador
ISBN-10
125012784x
ISBN-13
9781250127846
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Book Title
Darwin Comes to Town : How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Life Sciences / Evolution, Life Sciences / General, General
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Science
Number of Pages
304 Pages
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8.2in
Item Height
1.3in
Item Width
5.3in
Item Weight
10.1 Oz
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CONTENTS City portal Part I: City life 1: Nature's ultimate ecosystem engineer 2: The ant(hropo)-hill 3: Downtown ecology 4: Urban naturalists 5: City slickers 6: If I can make it there Part II: Cityscapes 7: These are the facts 8: Urban myths 9: So it really is 10: Town mouse, country mouse 11: Poisoning pigeons in the park 12: Bright lights, big city 13: But is it really evolution? Part III: City encounters 14: Close urban encounters 15: Self-domestication 16: Songs of the city 17: Sex and the city 18: Turdus urbanicus Part IV: Darwin city 19: Evolution in a telecoupled world 20: Design it with Darwin Outskirt Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index
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