Humans cause rapid animal evolution

[Guest guest]

Just saw this interesting article about how humans, as the

super-predators on this planet, are causing rapid evolution in many

wild animals that we hunt and fish:

http://www.livescience.com/animals/090112-super-predators.html

" Hunting and fishing by individual sportsmen as well as large-scale

commercial fishing are also outpacing other human influences, such as

pollution, in effects on the animal kingdom. The changes are dramatic

and may put the survival of some species in question. "

" By harvesting vast numbers and targeting large, reproductively mature

individuals, human predation is quickly reshaping wild populations,

leaving smaller individuals to reproduce at ever-earlier ages. "

We typically hunt the largest animals and this has a tendency to

reduce the animal size over time and favor earlier reproduction ages.

Other wild predators don't typically seek the largest prey.