Climate Change Could Change Rates of Evolution

Liza Gross

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001015

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Climate Change Could Change Rates of Evolution

Liza Gross

* E-mail: lgross@plos.org

Affiliation Senior Science Writer/Editor, Public Library of Science, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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Climate Change Could Change Rates of Evolution

Liza Gross

Published: February 1, 2011
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001015

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Adaptation to a warming climate can be expected. Would the same increased speed of adaptation be expected to a more negative climatic change? Posted by dsimmers on 14 Jan 2021 at 15:27 GMT

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