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Shrinking cod: How humans are impacting the evolution of species. Overfishing and selective harvest of the largest fish has caused genetic changes that favor slower growth and smaller size.

Biologists once thought that humans did little to affect the course of evolution in the short term. But a recent study of cod in the Baltic Sea reveals how overfishing and selective harvest of the largest fish has caused genetic changes that favor slower growth and smaller size.

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