Chronic larval crowding in fruit flies steers evolution towards larger and faster hatching eggs

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Scientists have found that populations of insects that experience chronic larval crowding all evolve to give rise to larger and faster hatching eggs, even though they vary in other adaptations. Till around 2003 it was believed that fruit flies adapted to larval crowding evolved greater competitive ability, invariably through the evolution of a combination of […]