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Robert Clark National Geographic Magazine
"Was Darwin Wrong? Evidence of Evolution"


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  One flower that captivated Darwin was the Madagascar Orchid, with it's eleven inch-long receptacle. He predicted that somewhere in Magagascar, a place he never visited, must live a moth with a proboscis eleven inches long, adapted to harvest the orchid's nectar. Forty years later, two entomologists revealed the discovery of a Madagascan sphinx moth, confirming Darwin's forecast. Such mutual adaptation -- the moth to the flower, the flower to the moth -- is called co-evolution.
 

 

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