Insects Drive Rapid Evolution of Plant Hosts (2 of 17) (IMAGE)

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Insects Drive Rapid Evolution of Plant Hosts (2 of 17)

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Schinia florida larvae eat evening primrose seeds. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 5, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Anurag Agrawal at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., and colleagues was titled, "Insect Herbivores Drive Real-Time Ecological and Evolutionary Change in Plant Populations."

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Image courtesy of Claire Smith, Cornell University

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