Thursday 25 August 2011

Spiders Say - We Can Adapt

A little bit of good(ish) news. A recent study has shown that "shock" experiment on climate change may paint too negative a picture for adaptation and survival. This work suggests that the particular species studied in this case (predatory spiders), at least, did adapt to gradually changing circumstances. Perhaps catastrophe is a little bit further away than some people suggest. There's no call for complacency, of course.

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