Seed dispersal is a fundamental life history trait in plants … Myrmecochory (seed dispersal by ants) is mediated by elaiosomes, i.e., lipid-rich seed appendages that…
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Published 2nd December 2022
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Published 1st June 2020
Repeated evolution: Despite biochemically complex, C4 photosynthesis evolved repeatedly more than 60 times
Another miraculous stuff happened here, let me quote from a mainstream paper. Even the author finds the evolution of C4 photosynthesis ‘somewhat puzzling’ because it…
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Published 14th August 2019
Repeated evolution of placenta: at least 100 independent origins across the animal kingdom
First off, let me start with some quotes from mainstream-articles: The placenta is arguably the most important organ of the body, but paradoxically the most…
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Published 8th July 2019
Key evolutionary innovation lost 1000 times! The ability of flight lost repeatedly in the vast majority of insect orders
Let me repeat that: Evolutionary biologists claim, that after insect-species evolved the key evolutionary innovation – the ability of flight – then the ability got…
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Published 13th June 2019
Repeated evolution: Among insect 236 families in 18 of 44 orders independently invaded water
just another extreme convergent evolution event … stuff happens … No insects returned to land after adapting to aquatic habits Due to different evolutionary rates…
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