Darwin Now competition – the winner
THANKS to everybody who entered our Darwin Now competition. We asked you to come up with ways in which animals and plants might evolve under human influence, much as hedgehogs have evolved not to freeze in car headlights.
Many entrants picked up the hedgehog and ran with it (so to speak). Noting that pheasants tend to suffer one of two inglorious fates – shot as they fly out of the woods or squashed as they walk across the road – Martin Addicott predicts that they will eventually evolve to walk out of the woods and…
