Analyzing the trade-offs of converting forests to farmland suggests the economic benefits outweigh the environmental costs in some places.
Posts Tagged ‘selection’
Do crops sometimes make deforestation worth it?
Posted by National University of Singapore on August 7th, 2017
Are humans evolving, due to technological changes?
Posted by News on November 20th, 2016
From Darren Curnoe at RealClearScience: Geneticists have found clear evidence that the choices people make can have profound impacts on the evolution of entire populations, and ultimately, our species as well. Some striking examples have been found like that both women and men are currently under selection for earlier age at first birth across a […]
Demystifying animal ‘personality (or not): why individual variation matters to experimental biologists [COMMENTARY]
Dominique G. Roche, Vincent Careau, and Sandra A. BinningAnimal ‘personality’, defined as repeatable inter-individual differences in behaviour, is a concept in biology that faces intense controversy. Critics argue that the field is riddled…