RE: If an Asteroid wiped out the Dinosaurs how did Evolution continue?
July 9, 2013 at 3:48 pm
(This post was last modified: July 9, 2013 at 3:50 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 7, 2013 at 12:10 am)apophenia Wrote: While it affected the dinosaurs, it's most significant impact would have been on the plant life of the time, as plants are broadly speaking, sensitive to the parameters which would have been changed by the impact, and can't change their habits or evolve adaptations to the new conditions as readily.The flora changes drastically following the KT. Flowering plants did well though- and look how many of them there are now..lol. A notable addition post KT is grass. Imagine a world with no grass......yup. Imagine a world with such open grounds as to facilitate the emergence of grass (and then our later tinkering with the same).
http://www.plantphysiology.org/content/125/3/1198.full
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