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Sean Carroll: Dances with fruit flies (U.S. News and World Report)

The fly, at first, looks like nothing so much as a tiny matador. Now standing still, now feinting left or darting right, he circles the petri dish arena, waving a black-tipped wing at his quarry like a red cape.

Quoted: Sean Carroll, in whose University of Wisconsin-Madison laboratory the biarmipes flies danced,