Theory Of Evolution In Fruit Flies

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For a long time, the mystery of how life became to today’s appearance, has been the question that many scientists urgent to seek for. And now, the theory of evolution has filled the puzzle of this mystery temporarily. But with the various research that have been reported, and more and more fossils have been unearthed, the theory of evolution seems insufficient to explain life.
From the perspective of genetic variation, there’s an experiment since the early 1990s, hundreds of thousands of fruit flies were exposed under the X-ray by scientists. The result was astonished. Although the fruit flies did mutate, but they were still fruit flies. More inconceivable thing is, these mutant fruit flies mate with each other, over the generations, scientists

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