The narrow-sense heritability of wing length in a population of Drosophila melanogaster is 0.8. The narrow-sense heritability of head width in the same population is 0.9. The genetic correlation between wing length and head width is −0.86. If a geneticist selects for increased wing length in these flies, what will happen to head width?

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