About Urban Evolution: How Times Square Proves Darwin's Survival of the Fittest (Documentary, 2020)
New roads, buildings and urban sprawl eat up natural habitats, sending plant and animal populations in worrying decline. How does nature react to this loss of biodiversity? Scientists reveal its ingenious responses, showing that plants and animals adapt much faster than previously believed possible. ------- Chapters ▷ 00:00 - Introduction ▷ 01:11 - Urban Predators and Prey ▷ 04:12 - How Cities Drive Evolution ▷ 05:18 - City Bugs and Light Pollution ▷ 07:29 - Moths Evolve in the City ▷ 09:20 - Fast Evolution - Urban Style ▷ 09:58 - Mice of New York City ▷ 12:22 - City Parks as Urban Islands ▷ 14:10 - Plants Adapting to Concrete ▷ 16:31 - Rapid Urban Evolution Discovered ▷ 18:01 - Birds of Los Angeles - The City Junco ▷ 23:27 - Lessons from Industrial Evolution ▷ 25:29 - Fish Surviving Pollution - Nature's Experiment ▷ 30:32 - Global Studies on White Clover and Adaptation ▷ 34:04 - Mice Mutations in Central Park ▷ 36:50 - Evolution in Action - Fast Food Mice ▷ 40:28 - Fish That Resist Toxins
Urban Evolution: How Times Square Proves Darwin's Survival of the Fittest (Documentary, 2020) is presented by wocomoDOCS. Its listed runtime is 52 minutes. The source link and publisher attribution are provided with the embedded film.
As a cities & architecture documentary, Urban Evolution: How Times Square Proves Darwin's Survival of the Fittest (Documentary, 2020) uses urban, evolution, times as its central frame. Urban stories connect architecture with transport, housing, public space and unequal access to opportunity. Look beyond landmark images to the workers, residents and infrastructure that make the city function.
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- Title
- Urban Evolution: How Times Square Proves Darwin's Survival of the Fittest (Documentary, 2020)
- Category
- Cities & Architecture
- Runtime
- 52 minutes
- Language
- English
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