5-16-12: Pollution Is Now Driving Evolution

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Photo of Atlantic killifish from Virginia Tech College of Natural Resources

For years, many people thought that evolution was something that happened slowly, over thousands or millions of years. But in a new book, Evolution in a Toxic World, toxicologist Emily Monosson explains how industrial chemicals are causing rapid evolution in Atlantic killifish (pictured above), as well as in moths, worms, mosquitoes and perhaps many other creatures.