It took nearly 150 years to prove that a suggestion by Charles Darwin in 1862 was correctThe theory of evolution has some wonderful predictive powers and because attempting to verify or falsify hypotheses is a core fraction of any science,setting up ideas for testing is fundamental to research. Some of these hypotheses are rather harder to work on than others, particularly in the case of direct observations of an strange event being required to provide confirmation. In the case of Darwin's moth, and it has taken a whole series of studies over a huge period of time to provide conclusive evidence of one of the distinguished ecological and evolutionary predictions in the field.
Pollination is a key fraction of the life cycle of flowering plants – pollen must get from one plant to another in order to fertilise the ova,but being unable to move makes the whole job rather tricky. Some plants rely on the wind and simply produce masses of pollen in the expectation that some will blow onto the just flower eventually. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com