"Cyclops" Beetle Offers "Solution" to Evolutionary Problem that Wasn't Supposed to Be There

Evolution is beset by chicken-and-egg problems: How to get A and B when A requires B and B requires A? Scientists at Indiana University think they've solved one such dilemma in explaining how novel features evolve.

From EurekAlert, "'Cyclops' beetles hint at solution to 'chicken-and-egg' problem in novel trait evolution":

"These studies provide a solution to an important 'chicken-and-egg problem' of modern evolutionary developmental biology," [Eduardo] Zattara said. "For a gene to carry out...