Our homes aren’t just ecosystems, they’re unique ones, hosting species that are adapted to indoor environments and pushing evolution in new directions. Indoor microbes, insects, and rats have all evolved the ability to survive our chemical attacks, developing resistance to antibacterials, insecticides, and poisons. German cockroaches are known to have developed a distaste for glucose, which is commonly used as bait in roach traps. Some indoor insects, which have fewer opportunities to feed than their outdoor counterparts, seem to have developed the ability to survive when food is limited. Dunn and other ecologists have suggested that as the planet becomes more developed and more urban, more species will ______________________________________ . Over a long enough time period, indoor living could drive our evolution, too. Perhaps my indoorsy self represents the future of humanity.
* glucose: 포도당 ** bait: 미끼