ApocaDocs: Rat islands 'a laboratory of future evolution': Rats predicted to fill in Earth's emptying ecospace

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Posted Mon Feb 3 2014: from University of Leicester:


	Rat islands 'a laboratory of future evolution': Rats predicted to fill in Earth's emptying ecospace http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1391442839 ... Dr Jan Zalasiewicz from the Department of Geology at the University of Leicester suggests that we better get used to having rats around -- and that their global influence is likely to grow in the future as larger mammals continue to become extinct... As rats fill the newly opened ecospace left in the wake of other extinct mammals, over time they, like many species of animal, experience evolutionary adaptation. Gigantism can occur in animals as they adapt to their environment and Dr Zalasiewicz believes that rats will prove to be no exception to this timeless rule.

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We look forward not just to rats but to gigantic rats!