DARWIN COMES TO TOWN: HOW THE URBAN JUNGLE DRIVES EVOLUTION
Book ID/图书代码： 08136016B87745
English Summary/英文概要： FROM EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGIST MENNO SCHILTHUIZEN, A BOOK THAT WILL MAKE YOU SEE YOURSELF AND THE WORLD AROUND YOU IN AN ENTIRELY NEW WAY
For a long time, biologists thought evolution was a necessarily slow process, too incremental to be observed in a lifetime. In Darwin Comes to Town, evolutionary biologist Menno Schilthuizen shows that evolution can in fact happen extremely quickly, and in the strangest of places: the heart of the city.
Menno Schilthuizen is one of a growing number of “urban ecologists” studying how our manmade environments are accelerating the evolution of the animals and plants around us. Cities are extreme environments and, in a world of adapt or die, the wildlife sharing these spaces with us is being forced to adopt fascinating new ways of surviving, and often thriving:
*carrion crows in the Japanese city of Sendai have learned to use passing traffic to crack nuts
*spiders in Vienna are adapting to build their webs near moth-attracting streetlights, while moths in some cities are developing a resistance to the lure of light bulbs
*certain Puerto Rican city lizards 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, while many pigeons have eschewed traveling “as the crow flies” in favor of following manmade roads.
DARWIN COMES TO TOWN draws on these and other eye-popping examples 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 overpopulation might not take the rest of nature down with us.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 當達爾文演化論深入現代都市叢林，生物在高樓林立的人口密集區如何展現驚人的演化？
達爾文認為，演化是緩慢運作的過程，在人類短暫的一生中不可能觀察到。
但事實上，就這麼一次，他錯了。
透過不一樣的角度看待你所居住的城市，直擊自然界的天擇如何在人類的力量下逐步扭轉！
★從六本木之丘、福岡、新加坡、曼哈頓到柏林，盡覽生物展現的演化大驚奇
★仙台的烏鴉已經學會利用往來的車輛壓碎堅果，英國的山雀會打開牛奶瓶蓋
★新加坡外來的福壽螺在原生的牽牛花上產卵，外地的物種在大城市裡異業結合
★波多黎各的蜥蜴演化出更厲害的腳掌，可以攀附平滑的混凝土牆
★生活在歐洲都會區的烏鶇以更高的音調鳴唱，以免聲音淹沒在喧囂的交通之中
★北美底鱂對多氯聯苯有了抵抗力，公園裡的鴿子演化成對重金屬具解毒力(DB)
Awards/获奖情况："Natural selection is occurring all around us, and, as Darwin Comes to Town explains, increasingly because of us. Menno Schilthuizen introduces us to such rapidly-evolving creatures as urban lizards and city-dwelling mice. The result is a lively and fascinating book." ―Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction
"Not only is evolution a real thing (something which, pathetically, one still needs to point out), not only is it an ongoing process (rather than a phenomenon of the distant past), but some of the fastest, most interesting evolving occurs right under our noses in our cities. In Darwin Comes to Town, Menno Schilthuizen explores the ways in which animals and plants have rapidly evolved to adapt to the opportunities and exigencies of urban niches. This is a fun, witty, thoroughly informative read."―Robert M. Sapolsky, New York Times Bestselling Author of Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
About the Author/作者介绍： 曼諾‧許特惠森Menno Schilthuizen是荷蘭演化生物學家暨生態學家，萊登自然生物多樣性中心終身職研究科學家，在萊登大學教授特徵演化和生物多樣性。
發表多篇與演化、生態相關的文章，著有三本廣受歡迎的科普著作。
Menno Schilthuizen (1965) is a Dutch ecologist and evolutionary biologist based at Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, who also holds a chair in evolution at Leiden University. His research deals with the diversification of groups of closely-related species, in land snails and beetles, and the questions of how and why different body-shapes evolve rapidly in such evolutionary ‘radiations’. He obtained his PhD from Leiden University in 1994 on the evolution of land snails from Greece, then did two postdoctoral stints at Wageningen University and from 2000 to 2006 worked as an associate professor at the Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation in Malaysian Borneo, where he still holds a research associateship. He has authored over 100 scientific publications in professional journals such as Trends in Ecology and Evolution, The Journal of Evolutionary Biology, and Nature.
Besides his scientific career, he has been an active free-lance science reporter and populariser of biodiversity science, having written more than 150 popular articles and news reports in Science, New Scientist, and Natural History, as well as Dutch, Belgian, and Malaysian newspapers and magazines. He has coordinated the Dutch branch of the 2009 international citizen science project Evolution Megalab, and has given public lectures on evolution and ecology for conservationists, amateur biologists, ecotourists and eco-tour operators, as well as the general public, and making regular appearances on radio and TV. He wrote several well-received books: Frogs, Flies & Dandelions; The Making of Species (2001, Oxford University Press), The Loom of Life; Unravelling Ecosystems (2008, Springer), and Nature’s Nether Regions (2014, Penguin). He currently works on his fourth book, Darwin Comes to Town (Quercus, 2017).
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