Improbable Destinies
Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution
Jonathan B. Losos (Harvard), 2017, Cedar Mill 576.8 LOSOS
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p181 1843, start of 7 acre Park Grass Experiment 30 miles NW of London, testing fertilizer effects on hay. Fertilizers favor fastest growing, best adapted species. Plot 3 is control, with many wild species. In 1950s, Roy Snaydon and Tony Bradshaw showed that the plants evolved quickly, and that geneflow between plots was very low. |
- p191 Silwood Park 40 miles SW. 20 years of fenced rabbit exclusion changed species.
- p304 Evolved resistance to antibiotics and pesticides. 30 species of insects have the same DNA change to resist pyrethroid pesticides.
- p305 Resistance to BT toxins which bind to proteins in insect guts. Mutations interfere with production of binding proteins.
p334 Homo Sapiens is far from inevitable