Same adaptations evolve across different insects

Tuesday, July 24, 2012 - 14:30 in Biology & Nature

For years, scientists have questioned whether evolution is predictable, or whether chance events make such predictability unlikely. A new study finds that in the case of insects that developed resistance to a powerful plant toxin, the same adaptations have occurred independently, in separate species in different places and times.

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