Invasive species shape evolution

Abstract

In their Perspective “Evolution in the Anthropocene” (26 February, p. 922), F. Sarrazin and J. Lecomte suggest a greater investment in securing the long-term evolutionary potential of species to safeguard biodiversity. However, evidence from biological invasions, a major feature of the Anthropocene, challenges the assumptions that evolutionary processes necessarily occur over long time scales, are constrained by human activities, or can in any way be predicted.