It's Not Just You: Fruit Flies Also Base Their Dating Habits Off Of Their Peers

By Amber Jorgenson
Nov 29, 2018 7:00 PMOct 18, 2019 8:45 PM
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If you think dating culture only applies to humans, think again.

A team of researchers recently discovered that female fruit flies take their mating preferences from their peers. When presented with a few differently-colored suitors, the flies were more likely to choose the color they’d seen other flies select before them. This kind of conformity suggests that the fruit flies are passing behaviors among themselves socially — what we humans call culture.

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