Co-evolution: New evidence from Xishuangbanna Studies on co-evolution of figs and fig wasps in tropical forests, SW China win world attention

Under the torrid summer sun in the deep tropical forest of Xishuangbanna in southwest China's Yunnan Province, Prof. YANG Darong and his young collaborators are busy doing field investigation.They gather around a fig tree and look carefully into its flowers: pear-shaped, hollow, and home to dozens of tiny fig wasps. They record data with notebook and camera,and collect samples for further laboratorial analysis.