{"id":892,"date":"2009-02-05T15:50:22","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T20:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=892"},"modified":"2009-03-28T19:36:57","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T23:36:57","slug":"wow-uf-is-really-churning-out-the-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=892","title":{"rendered":"Wow, UF is really churning out the science!"},"content":{"rendered":"

You want to see evolution? Well, do ya? Do you want to see actual biological evolution in action? Look no further than the Sunshine State’s own University of Florida<\/a>:<\/p>\n

GAINESVILLE, Fla. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Although widely speculated, researchers have now shown that the evolution of one species can drive the evolution of another.<\/p>\n

For the first time, researchers from the University of Florida, the University of Notre Dame and Michigan State University have documented what evolutionary biologists call \u00e2\u20ac\u0153cascading speciation.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d In the Feb. 6 issue of the journal Science, they describe how the continuing evolution of a fly species directly triggers changes in a wasp that preys on those flies \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a powerful demonstration of the complexity of Darwin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s theory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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You want to see evolution? Well, do ya? Do you want to see actual biological evolution in action? Look no further than the Sunshine State’s own University of Florida: GAINESVILLE, Fla. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Although widely speculated, researchers have now shown that … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-eo","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":703,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=703","url_meta":{"origin":892,"position":0},"title":"Flightless bird evolution","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"September 4, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Research on evolution is happening right here in Florida's very own universities. 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