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Monarch miscalculation: Has a scientific error about the butterflies persisted for more than 40 years?
Monarch miscalculation: Has a scientific error about the butterflies persisted for more than 40 years?
A few years ago, Christopher Hamm was reading up on monarch butterflies when he noticed something peculiar. All of the scientific articles that mentioned the number of the insect's chromosomes-30, it seemed-referenced a 2004 paper, which in turn cited a 1975 paper.
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