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Marcia Bartusiak.
Gearin, Conor J. (Conor James)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Graduate Program in Science Writing.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Graduate Program in Science Writing
MIT Program in Writing & Humanistic Studies
2017-01-30T19:16:32Z
2017-01-30T19:16:32Z
2016
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106747
969441534
Thesis: S.M. in Science Writing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Humanities, Graduate Program in Science Writing, September 2016.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. "June 2016."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 29-32).
Over the last 150 years, humans have wrought sweeping changes to the Great Plains. What was once the prairie is now the Corn Belt-row crops planted from fencerow to fencerow. What does this mean for the native wildlife, which evolved for millions of years to live only on the prairie? Here are the stories of three species-cliff swallows, western corn rootworms, and prairie deer mice-that natural selection has reshaped to thrive in the new agricultural landscape. With his finches, Charles Darwin read the record of evolution in the past. In the Corn Belt, today's scientists can see evolution in real time.
by Conor J. Gearin.
S.M. in Science Writing
32 pages
eng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Evolution in the Cornbelt : how a few special species are adapting to industrial agriculture
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