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

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Television nature programs 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.

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

Television nature programs 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.

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