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Disputes during the nineteenth century as to whether insect wings originated from gills or from paranotal lobes ended with almost universal acceptance of the paranotal theory. Sir Vincent Wiggles-worth, however, here gives evidence that the thoracic styli were perhaps the precursors of insect wings, and describes a theory of the origin of insect flight.
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WIGGLESWORTH, V. Evolution of Insect Wings and Flight. Nature 246, 127–129 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/246127a0
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