Saturday, November 13, 2010

For polar bears, the price of rapid evolution is a weaker skull | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine

For polar bears, the price of rapid evolution is a weaker skull | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine
“As a consequence of exceptional rapid specialization to a high arctic diet of seal flesh, the polar bear appears to have lost the generalized feeding abilities of its close relative. As a result, if current climate trends continue, one of the most striking examples of rapid… evolution may be lost as quickly as it appeared."

Evolution and climate change in one post. Surely this should get some comments from the knuckle-draggers

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