Cockroaches lose their 'sweet tooth' to evade traps

[Harpo]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22611143

 

[Bowler1]

I liked this article as well, the sneeky little buggers.

 

[MontyCircus]

Evolution is REAL?!?!!??!!!?

 

[chrispenycate]

Evolution is REAL?!?!!??!!!?

Yes, and insects, with their short generations and high birth rates can manage it remarkably rapidly (behavioral factors too) . As long as you kill about 98% of each generation (which needs doing, anyway, just to keep the population stable) by the same method, results can be measured in twenty generations, which, considering they can manage several generations in a year, means that a researcher can easily detect it and write it up within his professional lifetime.

You can even see it in gene scans; a species is born.

 

[Dream Walker]

They are also the only things capable of surviving a nuclear holocaust. If they are not going to neuter North Korea, I say we bow to the inevitable, and just transplant our consciousnesses into their systems for survivability now.