Sounds like McCarthy was right: the point of Drosophila is that it's a very small, simple model organism. You're not supposed to "solve biology" by modelling s

Sounds like McCarthy was right: the point of Drosophila is that it's a very small, simple model organism. You're not supposed to "solve biology" by modelling something in Drosophila, you're just supposed to be able to narrow the field to hypotheses that are not so flagrantly stupid they fail in a fruit-fly.