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September 2016
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We are highly adaptable. We have been for the past few million years,
and continue to be so on a daily basis. Whichever way you look at it,
the art of adaptation really is just a way of preserving your
integrity - physical or psychological - and coping the best way
possible with the environment you are evolving in. Throughout the
animal world and over the aeons, the capacity to adapt has always been
Nature's answer to predators and hostile physical, geographical or
climatic conditions. In short, adaptation is the best way to survive
and Charles Darwin was the first to explain animal diversity in this
way in his Origin of Species. Ever since, the study of fossils or more
recently genomes is a constant support to Darwin's theory of what was
then coined 'natural selection'. But it all remained very theoretical;
it is difficult to observe animal adaptation within a man's lifetime
when it occurs over thousands or even hundreds of years. However,
there is a moth in Great Britain, known as the Peppered Moth which,
over a relatively short period of time, adapted to the effects of
pollution resulting from the Industrial Revolution by changing the
colour of its body and wings. The protein involved in this change was
recently discovered and named 'the cortex protein'.
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