“It gives you a double whammy. Because you have more genetic variability with a shorter generation time, you increase the rate of natural selection.”
Shane Wright, a plant geneticist at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, on data showing that plants in the tropics evolve twice as quickly as those in temperate regions (The Guardian, London, 2 May)
“It could be one of the dumbest ideas of the year.”
Jerry Taylor of the Cato Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington DC, on the US Senate’s plan to return $100 to every taxpayer to help deal with rising fuel prices (…
