An Impossible Evolution - How Stick Insects Challenged Our Understanding

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Learn about how the evolution of modern stick insects challenged out understanding of evolutionary processes.

Chapters
00:00 Evolution to Gain Functions
01:05 Evolution to Lose Functions
01:50 Dollo's Law
02:53 Insect Characteristic Loss
04:50 Stick Insect Evolution:

Articles:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12862-022-02018-5
Bank, Sarah, and Sven Bradler. "A second view on the evolution of flight in stick and leaf insects (Phasmatodea)." BMC ecology and evolution 22.1 (2022): 62.

Whiting MF, Bradler S, Maxwell T. Loss and recovery of wings in stick
insects. Nature. 2003;421:264–7. https:// doi. org/ 10. 1038/ nature01274.1.