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typo in the post, surely..
"Wade repeatedly selected insect subpopulations for low numbers of adults per subpopulation"
Didn't he in fact select sub-populations with low numbers of *infants*? Or am I misunderstanding completely.
The selection pressure is supposed to be lower adult populations, how many infants doesn't really matter. Selecting on fewer infants (I assume you mean larva here - if not what's the difference?) would force the expected result (restricted breeding of some kind) instead of allowing multiple potential paths to achieve the same goal. Falsification must be a possibility.