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Early signs of divergent evolution in Heliconius butterflies in Ecuador may reveal a missing link to understanding how species form, according to a recent study by Harvard researchers...
...months, Harvard biology post-doctorates Nicola L. Chamberlain and Ryan I. Hill, both authors on the study, stood in an enormous cage of Heliconius butterflies, ready to swoop in and grab males as they fluttered their wings above a female in an attempt to mate...
This mimicry caused some of the population to have yellow wings and others white wings, but the Heliconius group in Ecuador was still genetically identical in every other way, unlike in Costa Rica...
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