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From evolutionary biologist Menno Schilthuizen, a book that will make you see yourself and the world around you in an entirely new way.<br /><br />For a long time, biologists thought evolution was a necessarily slow process, too incremental to be observed in a lifetime. In Darwin Comes to Town, evolutionary biologist Menno Schilthuizen shows that evolution can in fact happen extremely quickly, and in the strangest of places: the heart of the city.<br /><br />Menno Schilthuizen is one of a growing number of “urban ecologists” studying how our manmade environments are accelerating the evolution of the animals and plants around us. Cities are extreme environments and, in a world of adapt or die, the wildlife sharing these spaces with us is being forced to adopt fascinating new ways of surviving, and often thriving.<br /><br />--Carrion crows in the Japanese city of Sendai have learned to use passing traffic to crack nuts.<br />--Spiders in Vienna are adapting to build their webs near moth