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EVOLUTION: Natural Selection, Not Chance, Paints the Desert Landscape
Elizabeth Pennisi
Two evolutionary biologists have found that the color patterns in a flower called desert snow, which for 60 years have been attributed to genetic drift, are actually the result of natural selection.