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How Humans Cause Rapid Evolutionary Change

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An edition of The Evolution Explosion (2001)

The Evolution Explosion

How Humans Cause Rapid Evolutionary Change

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"Evolution is not just the slow process that ruled the rise and fall of the dinosaurs over hundreds of millions of years. It happens quickly too, so quickly and so frequently that it changes how all of us live our lives.

Drugs that suddenly fail because diseases evolve, insects that overcome the most powerful pesticides, HIV we can treat only for months before it evolves resistance to the newest drugs - all of these changes happen right before our eyes, driven by the intensity of human medicine, industry, and agriculture.".

"This fast evolution is evolution with teeth, and it impacts our society, our technology, and, very importantly, our wallets. Evolution adds approximately $30 billion a year to U.S. medical bills and makes some diseases economically incurable except in the richest countries. In addition, U.S. farmers pay an extra $2 billion annually to combat insects that have evolved to tolerate pesticides so powerful that a teaspoon would kill a person."--BOOK JACKET.

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Cover of: The Evolution Explosion
The Evolution Explosion: How Humans Cause Rapid Evolutionary Change
August 15, 2002, W. W. Norton & Company
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Evolution Explosion: How Humans Cause Rapid Evolutionary Change
August 2002, Tandem Library
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Cover of: The Evolution Explosion
The Evolution Explosion: How Humans Cause Rapid Evolutionary Change
August 15, 2002, W. W. Norton & Company
in English
Cover of: The Evolution Explosion
The Evolution Explosion: How Humans Cause Rapid Evolutionary Change
May 2001, W. W. Norton & Company, Norton
in English

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QH371

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OL7453925M
ISBN 10
0393323382
ISBN 13
9780393323382
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46319
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