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The Why Files: On the Wing: Birds, Skeeters, Jet Planes

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Evolution through natural selection governs the "design" of flying creatures. Engineers design flying machines. But flying is about physics, and physics is the ultimate arbiter of both processes, and that produces parallels in mechanical and animal evolution.

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