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Urban life is evolution’s new frontier: nature adapts to concrete jungles.

Darwin Comes to Town

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    352 pages

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    12 February 2019

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Summary

We are marching towards a future in which three-quarters of humans live in cities, more than half of the landmass of the planet is urbanized, and the rest is covered by farms, pasture, and plantations. Increasingly, as we become ever more city-centric, species and ecosystems crafted by millions of years of evolution teeter on the brink of extinction - or have already disappeared.

A growing band of ‘urban ecologists’ is beginning to realize that natural selection is not so easily stopp…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781786481085
ISBN-10:1786481081
Author:Menno Schilthuizen, Professor Menno Schilthuizen
Publisher:Quercus Publishing
Imprint:Quercus Publishing
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:12 February 2019
Weight:282g
Dimensions:198mm x 128mm x 20mm
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Critics Review

Invigorating and beautifully written. - BBC Wildlife

My eyes and ears have been opened to the emerging science of urban ecology by Menno Schilthuizen - Financial Times

Delightful and charmingly written - Daily Telegraph

Spellbinding and important - Sunday Times

About The Author

Menno Schilthuizen

Menno Schilthuizen is a Dutch evolutionary biologist and ecologist. He is a permanent research scientist at Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden and a professor in character evolution and biodiversity at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He has published numerous articles about evolution and ecology and three popular science books.

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