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Nature’s not perfect: fig wasps try to balance sex ratios for survival but they can get it wrong

By Jaco Greeff, Professor in Genetics, University of Pretoria
Television nature programmes and scientific papers tend to celebrate the perfection of evolved traits. But the father of evolution through natural selection, Charles Darwin, warned that evolution would produce quirks and “blunders” that reflect a lineage’s history.

Our recent study from the Kruger National Park in South Africa shows how true…The Conversation


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