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#ForewordFriday: Unnatural Selection Edition

By Katharine Sucher / On April 1st, 2016
Gonorrhea. Bed bugs. Weeds. Salamanders. People. All are evolving, some surprisingly rapidly, in response to our chemical age. In Unnatural Selection, newly available in paperback, Emily Monosson shows how our drugs, pesticides, and pollution are exerting intense selection pressure on all manner of species. And we humans might not like the result.

Life-changing Chemicals

By Emily Monosson / On March 25th, 2015
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), in green, with human cell, grey.
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Pesticide Cross-Resistance

By Andy Dyer / On December 15th, 2014
Reposted from the Chasing the Red Queen blog with permission. The concept of cross-resistance is well known in the medical world and in research on bacteria. The idea is that when a bacterial strain becomes resistant to one antibiotic, it can become resistant to another similar antibiotic even though the bacteria has never been exposed to the second antibiotic.
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The Value of Mutations

By Andy Dyer / On November 12th, 2014
The crested duck is host to a mutation that can be lethal.

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