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Migration and Diapause in Tropical, Temperate, and Island Milkweed Bugs

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Evolution of Insect Migration and Diapause

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To study evolution is to study variation. What is a truism now was of course not so before 1859. And it was Darwin, also, who combined the study of variation with the comparative method which then as now was the primary method of the evolutionary biologist. No less than with other behaviors and other organisms, the comparative method has revealed the variety and intricacy of escape responses in insects.

For when a new insect first arrived on the island, the tendency of natural selection to enlarge or to reduce the wings, would depend on whether a greater number of individuals were saved by successfully battling with the winds, or by giving up the attempt and rarely or never flying. As with mariners shipwrecked near a coast, it would have been better for the good swimmers if they had been able to swim still farther, whereas it would have been better for the bad swimmers if they had not been able to swim at all and had stuck to the wreck.

Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, 1859, p. 104

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Dingle, H. (1978). Migration and Diapause in Tropical, Temperate, and Island Milkweed Bugs. In: Dingle, H. (eds) Evolution of Insect Migration and Diapause. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6941-1_11

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