Animal Biology
Professor Chris Gillen
Weekly assignment 2
WA 2: Analyze the paper - Nijhout, H and Emlen, D. Competition among body parts in the development and evolution
of insect morphology. PNAS 95: 3685-3689, 1998. Briefly answer each of the following questions: What is the general
(big picture) hypothesis that is being tested? What is the specific strategy used to test the hypothesis? How well
do the results support the hypothesis?
Answers should be about 1 typed page in length.