Ella Al-Shamahi

I just picked the wrong puzzle.

the Drosophila fruit fly experiment.

So basically, because Drosophila live for such a short amount of time, you can basically like, you know, instead of it being, you know, a mountain pops up between two animals and it takes like, you know, hundreds of thousands of years for them to evolve.

You're doing it with Drosophila in a lab and you're kind of doing it in a much shorter time frame.

You're just kind of separating them.

And without getting into it, they were starting to see the process of speciation in the lab

And I was like, oh, that's not good.

Yeah.

But my only comfort with that experiment was that it was being done in the lab.

And I just thought, okay, but that might not be happening in nature.

Maybe it's being forced in the lab.

Maybe in nature that wouldn't be happening.

Like... Stratigraphy, just the layers of earth and that kind of sequence of animals that you get in them.

And they are broadly chronological.

And you do see an evolutionary process there.

Yeah.

You just do.

And it's really, really hard to explain.

You know, forgive my language.

You're like the BBC, right?