Comments on: Book review – Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution

By: Personal Best 2024: Bücher und so | einarweissbescheid

Personal Best 2024: Bücher und so | einarweissbescheid — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 11:48:59 +0000

[…] Menno Schilthuizen: Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution (2019) […]

By: Book review – A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us About the Destiny of the Human Species | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 22 Aug 2022 10:11:59 +0000

[…] A good example is island biogeography which established the relationship between island size and species diversity. The idea has been widely applied and has become a cornerstone in conservation biology. After all, undisturbed habitats fragmented by farmland and roads are islands of a different kind, but the same rules apply. Thanks to pioneering work by Nick Haddad and others on butterflies, we know that creating wildlife corridors to reconnect these fragments is probably the best tool to counter the problems we have created. And while biologists were fretting about this, Dunn points out, “the rest of us were connecting cities to cities” (p. 68), creating a different type of wildlife corridor benefitting a select few species. […]

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By: Book review – Sex in City Plants, Animals, Fungi, and More: A Guide to Reproductive Diversity | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 03 Aug 2022 14:02:17 +0000

[…] changes is only occasionally hinted at. Menno Schilthuizen wrote a very entertaining account in Darwin Comes to Town, but it has become a serious subfield of evolutionary biology. As such, this is a popular science […]

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By: Book review – Life Changing: How Humans Are Altering Life on Earth | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 16 Aug 2021 10:18:29 +0000

[…] Whole books have been written about e.g. the long-running fox domestication experiment in Siberia, evolution in urban settings and the textbook example of the peppered moth evolving in response to changes in air pollution, the […]

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By: Book review – Animal Internet: Nature and the Digital Revolution | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 16 Jul 2018 10:14:20 +0000

[…] Where wildlife conservation is concerned, Alexander Pschera clearly falls in the camp that thinks “humans are here now, a lot of damage has already been done, and we can’t turn back time – so let’s be pragmatic”. Similar sentiments are borne out by recent books such as Thomas’s Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature is Thriving in an Age of Extinction and Schilthuizen’s Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution. […]

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By: Book review – Unnatural Selection | The Inquisitive Biologist

Book review – Unnatural Selection | The Inquisitive Biologist — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 08:35:28 +0000

[…] and a “man-made environment”; there is just the environment”. Similarly, Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution explored how organisms are adapting to living in our cities, and Van Grouw mentions here both rock […]

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