BBC Radio interviews Kinnison about unnatural selection
BBC Radio 4 spoke with Michael Kinnison, professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Maine, for a report about accidental, inadvertent or unintentional selection and its effects on evolution. Kinnison said the evolutions humans cause can happen quickly, and one of the most studied and best understood examples is provided by fishing, according to the report. “Humans drive rates notably faster than we see in natural contexts,” Kinnison said. “And some of the champions on that are processes like harvest, fisheries — where our analyses indicate that humans are driving evolutionary change at three times the rate that we see in natural context.”