Was Darwin Wrong? Evidence of Evolution

Robert Clark

National Geographic

One flower that captivated Darwin was the Madagascar Orchid, with it's eleven inch-long receptacle. He predicted that somewhere in Magagascar, a place he never visited, must live a moth with a proboscis eleven inches long, adapted to harvest the orchid's nectar. Forty years later, two entomologists revealed the discovery of a Madagascan sphinx moth, confirming Darwin's forecast. Such mutual adaptation -- the moth to the flower, the flower to the moth -- is called co-evolution.

Robert Clark, "Was Darwin Wrong? Evidence of Evolution," in POYi Archive, Item #34576, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/34576 (accessed November 21, 2024).