Menno Schilthuizen: How animals and plants are evolving in cities
In cities, evolution occurs constantly, as countless plants, animals and insects adapt to human-made habitats in spectacular ways. Evolutionary biologist Menno Schilthuizen calls on peculiar beings such as fast food-loving mice and self-cooling snails to illustrate the ever-transforming wonders of urban wildlife -- and explains how you can obser...
Menno Schilthuizen: The evolution of animal genitalia
Genitals are the fastest-evolving organs in the animal kingdom. But why is this so? And what's the point of having decorative private parts? Menno Schilthuizen explains how the evolutionary biology of nature's nether regions uncovers a hidden world of seduction, conflict, and rivalry. [Directed by Mette Ilene Holmriis, narrated by Adrian Dannatt...
Menno Schilthuizen: Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution
The human kind is able to overturn entire ecosystems in a short time and the effects of its passage are often negative. But from the ability to adapt to new realities of some species we can understand a lot about nature and its unique strength to change and evolve consequently adapting to the artificial transformations caused by mankind. Nature ...