{"id":753488,"date":"2018-06-06T07:52:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=753488"},"modified":"2018-06-06T07:52:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T11:52:00","slug":"in-cities-wildlife-evolves-astonishingly-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=753488","title":{"rendered":"In Cities, Wildlife Evolves Astonishingly Fast"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>Animals as diverse as blackbirds and bobcats are adapting to their new surroundings, with startling results.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>SIMON WORRALL:<\/strong><em> &#8216;Most naturalists turn up their noses at cities, regarding them as anti-nature \u2014 sterile wastelands of concrete and steel. But evolutionary biologist Menno Schilthuizen, author of Darwin Comes to Town, takes the opposite view: Urban environments are in fact \u201cpowerhouses of evolution,\u201d where animals as diverse as blackbirds and bobcats are adapting to their new surroundings, with startling results&#8230; Animals, plants, and insects adapt to the extreme urban environment \u2014 and even to specific subway lines&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Speaking from his home in Leiden, Netherlands, Schilthuizen explains why mosquitoes on the Piccadilly Line in London\u2019s Underground are genetically different from those on the Bakerloo Line; why cities accelerate evolution in ways Darwin could not have imagined; and why sex in the city is helping urban blackbirds evolve into a new species&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/2018\/05\/urban-living-drives-evolution-in-surprising-way\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EjUBBNu_TgQ?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SIMON WORRALL: &#8216;Most naturalists turn up their noses at cities, regarding them as anti-nature \u2014 sterile wastelands of concrete and steel. But evolutionary biologist Menno Schilthuizen, author of Darwin Comes to Town, takes the opposite view: Urban environments are in fact \u201cpowerhouses of evolution,\u201d where animals as diverse as blackbirds and bobcats are adapting to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":753489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,17,24],"tags":[32,33],"class_list":["post-753488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-environment","category-science","tag-free-living","tag-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=753488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753490,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753488\/revisions\/753490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/753489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=753488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=753488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=753488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}