We are moving towards a future in which three-quarters of humanity lives in cities, more than half of the earth's surface is urbanized, and the rest is used for agriculture, pastures, and plantations. With the growth of urban areas, many species and ecosystems, formed over millions of years, are on the brink of extinction or have already disappeared.
A growing group of 'urban ecologists' discovers that natural selection does not stop. More and more plants and animals are adapting to the seemingly hostile environments of asphalt and steel that humans have created:
- Crows in Sendai (Japan) use traffic to crack nuts.
- Superb fairy-wrens in Australia have adapted their mating behavior to vegetation strips along roads.
- Unique populations of London Underground mosquito larvae have arisen due to diverse conditions in the subway lines.
Menno Schilthuizen shows that evolution can proceed faster than Darwin ever thought.
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