Dr. Emily Monosson is adjunct faculty in the department of environmental conservation at u mass Amherst and the author of three books about the relationship between humans and natural systems. Her most recent is Unnatural Selection: how we are changing life gene by gene.
We tend to think of evolution as something that used to happen – a force that shaped our natural world and, then, somehow just stopped. But, of course, evolution hasn’t stopped. In fact, with our antibiotics, pesticides, and myriad environmental pollutants, we may be driving evolution in new directions.
- Antibiotics
- Vaccines
- Pesticides
- Chemotherapy
- Pollution