Preserving the Key to Our Survival
Preserving the Key to Our Survival
Darwin gained a profound insight into how complex ecosystems evolve through the interactions of their species. Here, visiting some remarkable ecosystems, Christopher Wills explains the recent scientific advances that allow us to measure the evolutionary drivers powering their diversity and resilience, and can enable us to protect and restore them.
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Every one of Earth's teeming ecosystems is an evolutionary cauldron
Christopher Wills's claim has its roots in an insight from Charles Darwin: the interactions between species in an ecosystem are a powerful driver of evolution. In this book Wills describes how, by using the latest genetic techniques, we are probing ecosystems and discovering that even the most apparently barren of them are rich in variety, especially of microbes. Exploring the many ways in which ecosystems have coped with past change, and how rapidly an ecosystem can develop complexity, Wills illuminates a pathway of hope for the natural world that we have so damaged and depleted. Our new genetic knowledge can help these evolutionary cauldrons to continue brewing richness and diversity, the better to heal our living world and to enable our own survival.
