How have organisms evolved to live in the chemically complex world

How have organisms evolved to live in the chemically complex world  

Using the knowledge of the development of resistance to synthetic chemicals, one can predict that an organism encountering a new inhibitory NP in its food source, or in its environment, will evolve a capacity to adapt to the new chemical. By behavioural choices, or by chance circumstances, some individuals in the population will not be exposed to a lethal dose of the NP and the descendants of those individuals will eventually form resistant populations. 

This topic is covered more fully in Chapter 8, where examples are given of NPs in the diet that are exploited rather than being degraded or excreted. 

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