Human Impacts on Evolution
Description
Humans have evolved in many ways. Just look at how life for mankind has changed over the past few decades. It is amazing how different life can be in just a short amount of time. While it is evident that we have impacts of the environment, it should be just as evident that we impact the animals around us. However, there are a few subtle ways in which we impact the evolution of life.
Through man-made structures, human interference, artificial lights at night, and electromagnetic fields we have caused animals and insects to evolve and fit these new environments. While we tail the world around us to convince ourselves, the animals also living in these environments need to adapt to survive. In this essay, I will discuss how the affects mentioned above have cause crows, moths, snails, bobcats, blackbirds, mosquitoes, elephants, diurnal animals, fireflies, dung beetles, birds and bats to evolve. The adaptations these organisms made were caused by the subtle ways in which we have impact the landscapes around us.
Through man-made structures, human interference, artificial lights at night, and electromagnetic fields we have caused animals and insects to evolve and fit these new environments. While we tail the world around us to convince ourselves, the animals also living in these environments need to adapt to survive. In this essay, I will discuss how the affects mentioned above have cause crows, moths, snails, bobcats, blackbirds, mosquitoes, elephants, diurnal animals, fireflies, dung beetles, birds and bats to evolve. The adaptations these organisms made were caused by the subtle ways in which we have impact the landscapes around us.
Date Created
The date the item was original created (prior to any relationship with the ASU Digital Repositories.)
2020-05
Agent
- Author (aut): Fikse, Sydney D
- Thesis director: Sterner, Beckett
- Committee member: Pfeifer, Susanne
- Contributor (ctb): School of Life Sciences
- Contributor (ctb): Barrett, The Honors College