Smithsonian Scientists Use Rare Fossils to Catch Up to Speedy Snail Evolution
August 14, 2013
August 14, 2013
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 -- The Smithsonian Institution issued the following news release:
More than 150 years after Darwin's On the Origin of Species, scientists are still studying how living organisms evolve. Understanding the rate at which species adapt to new environments has always been a challenge, as the changes that take place between generations of offspring often occur too slowly to be readily observed but too quickly to be recorded in the Earth's fossil record. Evolutionary . . .
More than 150 years after Darwin's On the Origin of Species, scientists are still studying how living organisms evolve. Understanding the rate at which species adapt to new environments has always been a challenge, as the changes that take place between generations of offspring often occur too slowly to be readily observed but too quickly to be recorded in the Earth's fossil record. Evolutionary . . .