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Why don't flies avoid the motorway?
Flies have a short lifespan, therefore evolution should technically happen over a shorter period of time (years).
Flies die all the time from getting hit by cars on the motorway.
Those flies that ...
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Why *don't* all ants have wings?
Since the new queens-to-be have wings, it means that ants either evolved from insects that can fly, or insects that can fly evolved from ants, or that we have a case of parallel evolution (which is ...
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Why does the butterfly have a cocoon stage in its life cycle?
Why does the butterfly have a cocoon stage in its life cycle? It could have simply grown up within the egg/cocoon, and emerged as a butterfly. Instead it is first an egg, then a worm, then a ...
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Homologies to insect wings
All winged vertebrates have wings which are homologous to each other and to the forelimbs of the non-winged vertebrates. But what about insect wings? Are all insect wings homologous, and are there any ...
