“I hate to contradict Darwin,” says evolutionary biologist Joan Maloof. Yet the great man may have been a little quick to declare something a crime.
Pollinator: A hummingbird, with a bill long enough to reach the nectar deep in a scarlet gilia, counts as a legitimate pollinator for the Rocky Mountain plant.
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