Over on Telliamed Revisited, Richard Lenski is talking about his favorite examples of evolution, and mentioned this figure from a paper on hybrid monkeyflowers. Cross-species breeding produces interesting results!
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
Yes, but it’s still only microevolution!!!!111!!!!eleventy!!111
Not to make light or anything, but scanning across that picture I couldn’t help but think of a Muppet Show sketch that perhaps started as a serious segment on orchids, but turned into a cover of this:
Doh! auto embed.
I am yawning after looking at the pictures.