ABSTRACT
Contaminants may reduce the survival, recruitment, growth, and reproductive success of an organism, and hence they are potentially powerful agents of selection. Ecotoxicologists have long been interested in the rapid evolution of tolerance to contaminants (Luoma 1977), and it is generally accepted that this may occur after only a few generations (Klerks and Levinton 1989). There are substantial social and environmental consequences of the evolution of contaminant tolerance. The evolution of
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