[ExI] Swallows may be evolving to dodge traffic

Alfio Puglisi alfio.puglisi at gmail.com
Tue Mar 19 18:47:48 UTC 2013


How about human beings? Are people better at crossing the street, or
driving without rear-ending someone else?
In Europe traffic fatalities have been steadily decreasing in the last
ten years:
http://ec.europa.eu/transport/road_safety/specialist/statistics/index_en.htm
this is usually attributed to better car technology, driver behaviour, etc.
Alfio

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Dan <dan_ust at yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://www.nature.com/news/swallows-may-be-evolving-to-dodge-traffic-1.12614
>
> The next step might be to discover if there's been a shift in the genes in
> the population.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
>  My science fiction short story "Residue" is now on Amazon:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BS3T0RM for the US
>
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