Ella Al-Shamahi

And so, you know, all of this was going on.

I was, you know, traveling up and down, like doing this, doing that.

And at the same time, it's like, it's just constantly like picking at this, this, this theory of Darwin's, right?

I mean, effectively, what I was doing was trying to unpack a massive puzzle.

Now, everybody else had already unpacked it 150 years ago.

And I'm coming along being like, hold on.

We can just, we haven't thought of something.

Give me a minute.

And by the way, some people do that to great success.

Some people have won Nobel Prizes on the back of this.

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.