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Chasing the Red Queen - The Evolutionary Race Between Agricultural Pests and Poisons (Hardcover)
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Chasing the Red Queen - The Evolutionary Race Between Agricultural Pests and Poisons (Hardcover)
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In the race to feed the world's seven billion people, we are at a
standstill. Over the past century, we have developed increasingly
potent and sophisticated pesticides, yet in 2014, the average
percentage of U.S. crops lost to agricultural pests was no less
than in 1944. To use a metaphor the field of evolutionary biology
borrowed from "Alice in Wonderland," farmers must run ever faster
to stay in the same place--i.e., produce the same yields.
With "Chasing the Red Queen," Andy Dyer offers the first book to
apply the Red Queen Hypothesis to agriculture. He illustrates that
when selection pressure increases, species evolve in response,
creating a never-ending, perpetually-escalating competition between
predator (us) and prey (bugs and weeds). The result is farmers are
caught in a vicious cycle of chemical dependence, stuck using
increasingly dangerous and expensive toxics to beat back
progressively resistant pests.
To break the cycle, we must learn the science behind it. Dyer
examines one of the world's most pressing problems as a biological
case study. He presents key concepts, from Darwin's principles of
natural selection to genetic variation and adaptive phenotypes.
Understanding the fundamentals of ecology and biology is the first
step to "playing the Red Queen," and escaping her unwinnable race.
The book's novel frame will help students, researchers, and
policy-makers alike apply that knowledge to the critical task of
achieving food security.
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