Timeline for Are there animals that have evolved a resistance to human activity or encroachment?
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| Jul 17, 2020 at 22:48 | vote | accept | Robert Columbia | ||
| Jun 18, 2020 at 15:30 | comment | added | vsz | @RobertColumbia : they I guess cats will count... | |
| Jun 18, 2020 at 13:41 | comment | added | Robert Columbia | @vsz yes, I think it does. | |
| Jun 18, 2020 at 13:31 | comment | added | Doktor J | An excellent example of physical adaptation is the American Cliff Swallow which appears to be evolving a shorter wingspan, enabling them to be more agile in traffic. I'd post this as an answer but bio.SE doesn't love me :( | |
| Jun 18, 2020 at 12:41 | comment | added | Roland Puntaier | Normally it takes many generations for genetic adaptation. But I realized through your question, that by removal (e.g. hunting) of a specific phenotype encoded with one dominant gene allele, that allele is removed as well. Unless one knows how a phenotype is encoded genetically, it is not possible to conclude that it was an evolutionary human encroachment with wildlife, i.e. whether the genome was changed or not. | |
| Jun 18, 2020 at 4:40 | comment | added | vsz | Does "becoming cuter so humans will protect you instead of hunt you" count? | |
| Jun 17, 2020 at 14:29 | answer | added | Peter - Reinstate Monica | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 17, 2020 at 11:57 | comment | added | Riot | There are some good examples of behavioural adaptations to urban environments listed here: independent.co.uk/news/science/… | |
| Jun 17, 2020 at 1:50 | comment | added | ShadowRanger | An example given in "Guns, Germs and Steel" is the simple observation that megafauna extinctions were near total anywhere humans first arrived as fully evolved homo sapiens, but significantly less extreme anywhere humans had been co-evolving with the local megafauna (in particular Africa, to a lesser extent across Eurasia). We can't say precisely what attributes and behaviors African/Eurasian megafauna evolved that American/Australian megafauna did not, but the historical evidence suggests that simply having time to co-evolve to deal with humans helped a lot. "Fear of humans" seems likely. | |
| Jun 16, 2020 at 14:29 | history | protected | Bryan Krause♦ | ||
| Jun 16, 2020 at 11:55 | answer | added | Tonny | timeline score: -2 | |
| Jun 16, 2020 at 11:15 | answer | added | Levon | timeline score: 17 | |
| Jun 16, 2020 at 3:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackBiology/status/1272725877516894210 | ||
| Jun 16, 2020 at 1:44 | comment | added | Mark | By excluding cats, you're excluding what is possibly the clearest example. Cats don't fit the normal profile of domesticated animals -- you can't tame a cat the way you can tame a dog or a horse. One explanation for this is that cats weren't domesticated. Instead, they evolved to fit into an agrarian society. | |
| Jun 15, 2020 at 22:16 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jun 15, 2020 at 18:18 | answer | added | tyersome | timeline score: 25 | |
| Jun 15, 2020 at 17:36 | comment | added | Robert Columbia | @tyersome thanks, and not really. An example of cockroach or rat evolution could be an answer, but I'm looking for cases in which the organism has clearly developed a notable adaptation that it didn't have (or that at least was rare) before, rather than cases of animals that have more or less always been pests. For example, if there is a paper showing that certain varieties of cockroaches in North America developed bleach resistance between 1830 and 1870 as a result of its use as a pesticide, that would be an answer. | |
| Jun 15, 2020 at 16:39 | comment | added | jamesqf | "Evolved" is rather tricky, but there are a number of species that live happily in places densely populated by humans: pigeons, the urban peregrine falcons that nest on skyscrapere & prey on them, urban coyotes, bears that feed on trash, even the occasional mountain lion that comes into town to visit the casinos: kcra.com/article/a-mountain-lion-in-a-casino-don-t-roulette-out/… | |
| Jun 15, 2020 at 16:24 | comment | added | tyersome | Welcome to Biology.SE! Is there any reason to exclude the numerous "pest" species (e.g.s: cockroaches, mice, rats) that often "share" our homes? | |
| Jun 15, 2020 at 15:50 | history | edited | Robert Columbia | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 15, 2020 at 15:25 | answer | added | dtadres | timeline score: 39 | |
| Jun 15, 2020 at 14:27 | history | edited | Robert Columbia | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
should go without saying, but...
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| Jun 15, 2020 at 14:18 | history | edited | Robert Columbia | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 15, 2020 at 14:11 | history | asked | Robert Columbia | CC BY-SA 4.0 |