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Dear HIW,

I’m a frequent reader of your magazines and often read the same ones again and again. I was reading an article about evolution and found a part about human-driven evolution. That got me thinking, how would living beings grow to adapt to climate change? What would they grow in order to do that? Do you think that some animals would develop a tolerance of ultraviolet light somehow?

Muhammad

Any changes to animals’ environments can cause a species to adapt and evolve, and as the impact 

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