MixedScienceThrough a series of 20 short but connected chapters that mix natural history vignettes, interviews with visionary scientists, and visits to childhood haunts, science journalist and biology professor Menno Schilthuizen introduces readers to the striking facts of ongoing urban evolution in Darwin Comes to Town. But while the prose may be playful...the underlying message may cause discomfort ... Schilthuizen tacitly acknowledges that we have bent Earth to our bidding and that the rest of its inhabitants will either adapt or perish. This is undoubtedly true. But his view of the future replaces a nature where we decidedly do not meddle with one where we decidedly do. For some, this will seem the very opposite of natural. And that dissonance may put a sting in an otherwise fascinating tale.
