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Wide Angle: Ready, Set, Evolve!

Evolution is speeding up all over the planet and humans are a big reason why. Evolution is how life solves problems. And from invasive species to climate change to over-development, human activities are providing plenty of problems and pressure to evolve or die. Will enough species adapt fast enough? That's the trillion dollar question lurking behind this week's Wide Angle.

Rapid evolution is underway all around us -- and we're causing much of it. Darwin was wrong: Evolution is not necessarily slow.

Evolution Before Your Eyes

Some amazing cases of animals evolving faster than ever thought possible.

Evolution does not always work slowly. Sometimes, maybe mostly, it works in rapid fits and starts called punctuated equilibrium. It's the last thing Charles Darwin would have expected.

What's Punctuated Equilibrium?

Darwin thought evolution was a very gradual process. The theory of punctuated equilibrium suggest it more of a game of leap frog.

Rick Shine has watched one of the most amazing and accidental evolutionary experiments unfold.

IM Interview - The Great Accidental Evolution Experiment

Natural selection and evolution are in overdrive in some parts of Australia. It started with a toad and is now a vast evolution laboratory.

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