[Hank Kerchief]

“Off the top of my head: there have actually been dozens of speciation events in the lab involving species of Drosophila (”fruit flies”).”

Nope. There’s never been one. Read the article. Drosophila melanogaster is discussed completely.

Hank

[allmendream]

Never a speciation event in Drosophila? Maybe your source doesn't know as much as you suppose.

1: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1966 Apr;55(4):727-33. Links
Spontaneous origin of an incipient species in the Drosophila paulistorum complex.Dobzhansky T, Pavlovsky O.
PMID: 5219677 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
PMCID: PMC224220