Research Ties Human Acts to Harmful Rates of Species Evolution - NYTimes.com

Research Ties Human Acts to Harmful Rates of Species Evolution - NYTimes.com: "The new findings are more sweeping. Based on an analysis of earlier studies of 29 species — mostly fish, but also a few animals and plants like bighorn sheep and ginseng — researchers from several Canadian and American universities found that rates of evolutionary change were three times higher in species subject to “harvest selection” than in other species."