Ambiances such as a cooler or warmer color palette, "fantasy" or "realistic" lighting environments, more vibrant or bleak saturation.the list is very long. Given author can also include their own shaders in the mix, the combinations are nearly endless and there is likely already an ENB preset that is perfect for every users' personal tastes. The unprecedented influence that humans are exerting on the natural world is a given in this epoch of the Anthropocene. Now, in his latest book, Darwin Comes To Town, evolutionary biologist Menno Schilthuizen explores how that influence is rapidly reaching down into the genes of plants and animals. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, Schilthuizen, a researcher at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands and a professor at Leiden University, describes how, through fast-paced natural selection, creatures in cities and suburbs are genetically evolving to deal with the omnipresence of humans. Urban populations of some birds, adjusting to traffic noise, are becoming hard-wired to sing at a higher pitch than their country cousins. White-footed mice in Central Park are evolving to better deal with the fatty foods that New Yorkers serendipitously drop their way. Caribbean lizards are undergoing genetically driven physical changes so they can better maneuver along urban surfaces that are far smoother than the rough bark of trees. Schilthuizen also discusses some theories that challenge current conservation orthodoxy, noting, for example, that corridors that enable isolated wildlife populations to connect may not always be advantageous in an urban setting in which “local adaptation to deal with the very specific local conditions is something that’s important for these animals.” Still, says Schilthuizen, the ability of some species to adapt to city life in no way lessens the urgency to preserve the earth’s remaining natural areas. “ as someone who is inspired by biodiversity, to me it would be a tragedy to lose those species that need untouched areas to survive.” “You can appreciate what’s going on in evolution in very artificial human-constructed environments like cities,” he says. Yale Environment 360: You write about some fascinating examples of how species have rapidly changed in an urban environment, including American cliff swallows, whose wings have become shorter so they can take off faster vertically in the face of oncoming cars. What’s genetically different about these populations, and what was the pressure to diverge in that way? And then there’s the case of the white-footed mice in New York City, who live in isolated populations in various parks. Menno Schilthuizen: This is work that’s been done by Jason Munshi-South of Fordham University. The first public post from ten years ago about my homebrew firmware for the Canon 5D Mark 2 DSLR marks the very humble beginning of the Magic Lantern project: /UfcCd8bD0w- Trammell Hudson ⚙ A bit of history In 2008 the Canon 5D Mark II changed everything. It was the first affordable full frame sensor camera capable of capturing video. It quickly became the go-to tool for budget filmmakers and it wasn’t long till people wanted to get more out of their cameras. Magic Lantern was originally written by Trammell Hudson in 2009 for the Canon EOS 5D Mark II after he managed to reverse engineer the camera’s firmware. Magic Lantern is a software enhancement that offers increased functionality to Canon DSLR cameras. Magic Lantern created an open framework, licensed under GPL, for developing extensions to the official firmware. Magic Lantern is not a “ hack“, or a modified firmware, it is an independent program that runs alongside Canon’s own software. Each time you start your camera, Magic Lantern is loaded from your memory card. The only modification Magic lantern created was the ability to run software from the memory card.
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