ulldott

Very fascinating subject!

I don't know nearly enough about evolution, but I've read some reports and articles related to my ecology degree.

One of the things I read in a report was this;

"They found that for small, short-lived birds like the great tit, evolution can work fast enough for genetic adaptation to keep pace with a changing environment. However, even for such fast-evolving species, evolution on its own is not enough."

It seems as though climate change is happing too fast for the species to adapt, but also that we know too little about how evolution works.

"Our understanding of microevolutionary adaptation to climate change is still very much at the same point as it was over 15 years ago when Holt (1990) noted that: ‘There is almost no species for which we know enough relevant ecology, physiology and genetics to predict its evolutionary response to climate change’. Sadly, in one of the best-understood cases where such a prediction is possible, it is that extinction rather than adaptation is a likely outcome of climate warming (Hoffmann et al. 2003)"

I'm not sure what my question here is, I am just fascinated by the thought of how the world will be with these climate changes. It's hard to predict, but what do you think?

^{English is not my main language, so if you dont understand everything let me know and I can try and rephrase it :)}

I'm not South African, but lived and studied there. We had a few boomslangs in our yard from time to time and everyone here said they were pretty docile snakes. Is that wrong then?