Fruit Fly Wings Open Window on Evolutionary Question (IMAGE)

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Fruit Fly Wings Open Window on Evolutionary Question

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Researchers from Norway and Florida were able to change the fundamental relationship between size and roundness in fruit flies in 26 generations -- but natural selection took much less time to return the wing relationship to "normal."

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David Hole, Florida State University

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