They’re winning the rat race. The Big Apple’s rodents are evolving to become smarter and stronger than their biggest predators — humans. House mice are genetically mutating to build immunity against household pesticides, while rats are simply figuring out how to escape deadly traps, according to a study published this month. “They have adapted to human strategy, which means we have to understand more and we have to become much smarter than them,” Jin-Jia Yu, a postdoctoral fellow in the