Abstract
J.B.S. Haldane is famously supposed to have remarked that the Creator had an inordinate fondness for beetles. In evolutionary biologists’ minds, beetles have been basking in the warm glow of God's favour ever since: but are they really the chosen ones? Peter Mayhew [1] has now addressed this issue using data on species richness, taxon age and phylogenetic relatedness of hexapods (the Entognatha, e.g. Collembola, plus the insects) and concludes that the Creator's fondness had wider taxonomic bounds.
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