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Science 9 June 2006:
Vol. 312. no. 5779, pp. 1477 - 1478
DOI: 10.1126/science.1127000
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Perspectives

CLIMATE CHANGE:
Evolutionary Response to Rapid Climate Change

William E. Bradshaw and Christina M. Holzapfel

Recent, rapid climate change is driving evolution, as organisms adapt to altered seasonal events rather than to the direct effects of increasing temperature.

The authors are at the Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA. E-mail: mosquito{at}uoregon.edu

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