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	Podcast:		Science Nation
	Episode:		Insect battles provide clues to evolution
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:03:45
	Publish Date:		2016-09-21 13:15:31
	Description:		The seemingly peaceful atmosphere in an organic garden on the University of Florida campus belies the battles happening among many of its tiniest inhabitants -- the insects. For entomologist Christine Miller, there are endless opportunities here to study how insects compete and even fight for a mate. With support from NSF, Miller and her team are researching mate selection and animal weapons as a key to better understanding animal behavior, diversity and evolution. Understanding evolution is essential for figuring out solutions to modern problems such as antibiotic resistance, a major problem in medicine, and for understanding how life on the planet became so diverse and how it may change in the future.
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