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Why and how does personality emerge? Studying the evolution of individuality using thousands of fruit flies

  • Written by Shraddha Lall, Ph.D. Candidate in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
imageEven fruit flies have personal preferences.Antagain/E+ via Getty Images

As a Ph.D. student, I wanted to understand the evolution of individual differences in fruit fly behavior – the building blocks of personality. My experiments involved measuring how my tiny subjects acted in a maze.

So each day in the lab began with using a thin paintbrush...

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