Journal of Heredity Advance Access originally published online on June 21, 2006
Journal of Heredity 2006 97(5):538; doi:10.1093/jhered/esl002
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The Evolutionary Biology of Flies
The Evolutionary Biology of FliesEdited by David K. Yeates and Brian M. Wiegmann.
Columbia University Press, New York. 2005. ix + 430 pp. $94.
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Flies and Their Place in the World
It is a pleasure to read a collection of papers that puts a group of organisms that we think we know well in a larger perspective. When our horizons are thus broadened, surprises can often result, and new experiments can suggest themselves.
Drosophila geneticists tend to have a narrow view of the life and activities of the flies on which they work. Parts of my youth were spent wandering
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