What the Fruit Fly Tells Us About Mormon Polygamists

Mormon polygamists of the 19th century had something in common with an unlikely creature: the fruit fly. In the 1940s, geneticist Angus Bateman discovered that the more sexual partners a fruit fly had, the less offspring those partners produced. Scientists examining the polygamous members of the Mormon Church—Brigham Young,…

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What the Fruit Fly Tells Us About Mormon Polygamists

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