
ScienceDaily (Aug. 8, 2007) — Alexander Kaiser, Ph.D., of Midwestern University’s Department of Physiology, Division of Basic Sciences, was the lead author in a recent study to help determine why insects, once dramatically larger than they are today, have seen such a remarkable reduction in size over the course of history.There were hundreds of ideas to explain the small size, but none of them could be proven,” Dr. Kaiser said. To test their theory...