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Can rapid evolution 'rescue' species from climate change?
- March 12, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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A potted scarlet monkeyflower would die within a few days without water. But multiple natural populations of the species survived an extreme, four-year drought in California, and researchers now know why: The flowers were rescued by their own rapid evolution.
Originally published at Phys.org