Current narratives suggest that urban adaptation–the adaptive evolution of organisms to
cities–is pervasive across taxa and cities. However, in reviewing hundreds of studies, we …

Many researchers have questioned the ability of biota to adapt to rapid anthropogenic
environmental shifts. Here, we synthesize emerging genomic evidence for rapid insect …

Urban ecosystems are rapidly expanding throughout the world, but how urban growth affects
the evolutionary ecology of species living in urban areas remains largely unknown. Urban …

Cities are uniquely complex systems regulated by interactions and feedbacks between
nature and human society. Characteristics of human society—including culture, economics …

Urbanization transforms environments in ways that alter biological evolution. We examined
whether urban environmental change drives parallel evolution by sampling 110,019 white …

Urbanisation is increasing worldwide, and there is now ample evidence of phenotypic
changes in wild organisms in response to this novel environment. Yet, the genetic changes …

Urbanization is a global phenomenon with profound effects on the ecology and evolution of
organisms. We examined the relative roles of natural selection, genetic drift and gene flow in …

Urbanization represents a dominant and growing form of disturbance to Earth's natural
ecosystems, affecting biodiversity and ecosystem services on a global scale. While decades …

Although the field of urban evolutionary ecology has recently expanded, much progress has
been made in identifying adaptations that arise as a result of selective pressures within …

Natural and human-induced stressors elicit changes in energy metabolism and stress
physiology in populations of a wide array of species. Cities are stressful environments that …