DR. KIYOKO GOTANDA
Assistant Professor, Brock University
Postdoctoral Fellow, Université de Sherbrooke

WHEN:  April 30, 2021 at Noon
WHERE: Seminar will be presented via Zoom

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Adaptation in a changing world: human influences on evolution

Humans pose major threats to the generation and maintenance of biodiversity on the planet. Humans can alter evolution through a variety of mechanisms. For example, the increase in urbanization (development of villages, towns, and cities) has a strong effect on ecological and evolutionary processes. Another example is the introduction of novel predators, an impact known to be closely correlated with local extinction events. These strong, human induced pressures could be fundamentally altering the evolutionary processes underlying species diversification and the maintenance of such biodiversity. Here, I present examples of humans altering selective pressures, and what the consequences of this are.

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