[walden]

" . . . every last one of them has remained a fruit fly to the end."

When they started living longer, did they become something else? Or, were they still fruit flies?

[frgoff]

When they started living longer, did they become something else? Or, were they still fruit flies?

Well, if biologists could ever get around to actually coming up with an international standard of measurement to determine precisely and mathematically what, exactly, a species is, we could probably answer that question.

[tfecw]

thats what the definition manipulation piece I added in there is for.

The point of bringing up fruit flies in the article was an attempt to show that with that many iterations the fruit flies at iteration 1 are the same at iteration 100,000 which is false. Have the fruit flies learned speech and built tiny civilizations? no. Is fruit fly generation 100,000 after appropriate environmental factors applied the same as fruit fly generation 1? Also no.