More than a dozen species of rove beetles have independently evolved morphological and chemical characteristics that allow them to infiltrate ant colonies for food.
“These beetles keep finding the same solution,” [Joseph] Parker says. “It tells us that long-term, highly predictable phenotypic evolution is absolutely possible.”
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