Evolution And Climate Change
If I was to choose one science that I most loved, one science that most influences my writing, it would be evolutionary biology, the way living things change over time and under pressure.
There have been few greater pressures than that of climate change. The world around us is changing almost scarily quickly as the average temperatures increase.
But there is good news! Recent studies by Andrew Hendry, Michael Kinnison, and other colleagues have shown that some living organisms have been evolving as quickly as climate change and other human pressures have been unfolding. (Read the entire article here – https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/02/a-new-database-reveals-how-much-humans-are-messing-with-evolution/ ).
Female elephants, for example, are evolving to be devoid of tusks, due to humans hunting elephants with large tusks. Because these female elephants don’t have tusks, they tend to eat different plants, which is changing the landscape around them.
Fish tend to be smaller because humans are less interested in harvesting smaller fish. Smaller fish also don’t retain heat as much as larger fish do, which is a benefit in our warming oceans.
Electric pylons are often covered with zinc, which is toxic to most plants. Tufted hairgrass has evolved to be immune to zinc.
This gives me great hope that life will continue to survive on this wonderful planet of ours. These lifeforms will look different than they do now but these differences will ensure species endure and that is such an awesome prospect!
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Seizing Power
This cyborg believes he’s in control.
Power is the self-appointed leader of the cyborg council. Other members might debate situations. He makes the ultimate decisions.
When a threat to Homeland is revealed, he takes command of a fleet and ventures to the edge of cyborg-controlled space to investigate. He finds a rebellion led by a mysterious upstart he calls Cadet.
The plan Power derives is simple—he’ll quickly quash the uprising and teach its leader a lesson the warrior will never forget.
NO ONE challenges his authority.
Eirene Ours might be called a cadet by Power but she is NOT his subordinate. She is the arrogant E Model’s genetic match.
For much of her mature lifespan, she has desired the male, yearning for his dark-eyed gaze, craving his sure hands, longing for his respect.
That esteem was never granted. And Eirene Ours can no longer wait to earn it. There’s an external threat to their kind, a danger that might destroy them all.
Having lured Power to her home terrain, she now plans to use everything within her means — her fists, her daggers, her ship-destroying missiles — to pound that truth into her stubborn warrior’s thick metal skull.
The future of every cyborg is at stake. She can’t fail them.
Power will believe her. Or he will die.
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