Evolution of life in urban environments

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  • Marc T. J. Johnson
    Department of Biology and Center for Urban Environments, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
  • Jason Munshi-South
    Department of Biological Sciences and Louis Calder Center, Fordham University, Armonk, NY, USA.

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<jats:title>Welcome to the city</jats:title> <jats:p>Human populations are shifting en masse to cities, which is leading to rapid increases in the number and extent of urban areas. Such changes are well known to cause declines in many species, but they can also act as alternative selection pressures to which some species are able to adapt. Johnson and Munshi-South review the suite of pressures that urban environments exert, the ways in which species may (or may not) adapt, and the larger impact of these evolutionary events on natural processes and human populations. Understanding such urban evolution patterns will improve our ability to foster species persistence in the face of urbanization and to mitigate some of the challenges, such as disease, that adaptation can bring.</jats:p> <jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> , this issue p. <jats:related-article xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="doi" issue="6363" page="eaam8327" related-article-type="in-this-issue" vol="358" xlink:href="10.1126/science.aam8327">eaam8327</jats:related-article> </jats:p>

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  • Science

    Science 358 (6363), eaam8327-, 2017-11-03

    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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