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Daniel Merino, Assistant Science Editor & Co-Host of The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation

From radiation to water pollution to cities, humans are now a driver of evolution in the ‘natural’ world – podcast

For many species, human actions are the biggest factor in their evolution. Andriy Onufriyenko/Moment via Getty Images

Humans do a lot of different things to the environment, and there aren’t many natural processes – aside from an asteroid impact or the like – that can rival the scale of change brought on by human activity. In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, we speak to three experts who study different ways that people are affecting how plants and animals evolve – and how humanity has become the single biggest driver of evolutionary changes on Earth.

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