An unusual case of early speciation associated with human activity

• 来源期刊: 国家科学评论（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（1）
• 页码范围: 129
• 页数: 1页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwz174

摘要

During the past thousands of years,the expansion of human civilization has changed the surface of Earth.Human activities accelerate the extinction of species,which is called the sixth mass extinction [1].Some geologists even proposed a new era,Anthropocene,to emphasize the impact of human influence.On the other hand,human activities may also mediate speciation events [2].Qu et al.described an interesting potential speciation event associated with human activities [3].The story began about 3600 years ago when the rise of barley agriculture in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) [4] seems to have attracted an uninvited guest:the Eurasian tree sparrow,a human commensal species.