"Palumbi...does an excellent job of showing how man-made evolution is not only real but relevant."
--New York Times
"Palumbi's writing is lively and lucid."
--Booklist
Submitted By Publisher, November, 2003
Summary
Evolution is not merely the process that ruled the rise and fall of the dinosaurs over hundreds of millions
of years. It also happens rapidly, so quickly and so frequently that it changes how all of us live our lives. Drugs
fail because diseases like HIV and tuberculosis evolve in a matter of months, neatly sidestepping pharmacology.
Insects adapt and render harmless the most powerful pesticides in a matter of years, not centuries.
While the ecological impact of human technology has been well publicized, the evolutionary consequences of antibiotic
and antiviral use, insecticide applications, and herbicide bioengineering have been largely unexplored. In The
Evolution Explosion, Stephen R. Palumbi examines these practical and critical aspects of modern evolution with
a simple, yet forceful style that contains both an urgent message and a sense of humor.
