Sudden modern noise gives species no evolutionary time to adapt

Evidence

The ouzel shows that a species can adapt to broad-spectrum noise in its environment, given enough time to evolve. But in the modern world, noise has come on so fast and so loud that it amounts to an ongoing explosion with no rest stops; there’s no time to adapt. — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 915

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the craft of Muir’s nature writing cited in the same passage, and to selective-pressure/evolution arguments elsewhere in the shelf about habitat change. — connects to: The boundary between biological and cultural evolution is dissolving — Emlen, Douglas J, Animal Weapons_ The Evolution of Battle, 493; Technological noise alters animal behavior and threatens species like marine mammals. — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology: Principles,…, 9; Organisms adapt to natural noise but suffer stress from anthropogenic noise — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology: Principles,…, 1275 (+1 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 915