The Evolution Explosion: How Humans Cause Rapid Evolutionary Change

"Palumbi has hit upon...one of the most important but widely neglected issues of our time."-Edward O. Wilson

Evolution is not merely the process that ruled the rise and fall of the dinosaurs over hundreds of millions of years. It also happens rapidly, so quickly and so frequently that it changes how all of us live our lives. Drugs fail because diseases like HIV and tuberculosis evolve in a matter of months, neatly sidestepping pharmacology. Insects adapt and render harmless the most powerful...