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... wasp carrying a large green caterpillar beneath its body . Unbe- knownst to you , the wasp is a female of the species Ammophila novita . As you peer at the wasp , she crawls onto a tuft of grass and deposits the caterpillar at the top ...
... wasp carrying a large green caterpillar beneath its body . Unbe- knownst to you , the wasp is a female of the species Ammophila novita . As you peer at the wasp , she crawls onto a tuft of grass and deposits the caterpillar at the top ...
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... wasp behavior . How Questions How does an Ammophila wasp find and catch a caterpillar that is larger than itself ? To answer this question , we would have to learn how the wasp's nervous system enables the insect to maneuver in the air ...
... wasp behavior . How Questions How does an Ammophila wasp find and catch a caterpillar that is larger than itself ? To answer this question , we would have to learn how the wasp's nervous system enables the insect to maneuver in the air ...
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... wasp operates is totally mysterious , nor is anything known about the genetic - developmental basis of any wasp's nerv- ous system . Why Questions But let's say that you were provided with or that you person- ally discovered everything ...
... wasp operates is totally mysterious , nor is anything known about the genetic - developmental basis of any wasp's nerv- ous system . Why Questions But let's say that you were provided with or that you person- ally discovered everything ...
Contents
NATURAL SELECTION | 5 |
Alternative Hypotheses | 11 |
Experimental Tests of Evolutionary Predictions | 17 |
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