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Author: Peter H Raven, George B Johnson Professor, Kenneth A. Mason Dr. Ph.D., Jonathan Losos Dr., Susan Singer
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Chapter 46, Problem 4S
If natural selection favors the evolution of wings in different types of vertebrates, why didn’t it produce structures that were built in the same way?
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