Origins: From Jungle to Lab.  The Story of Life's Complexity
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David Carter and Liz Wilder Entimologists

"You'll always have to look deeper and deeper, and the deeper you look the more you find out."
—David Carter

Tagged insects in the collection

"Once you start to look at a long series like this, you really start to understand that there is a huge amount of variation, and you begin to understand how natural selection may begin to operate."
—David Carter on the Museum's massive insect collections
 
Liz Wilder and butterfly trap Butterfly identification sample specimens Field to Lab
tagged specimens a science team enters the jungle moths  
 
   

Origins: Exploratorium: From Jungle to Lab


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