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HUMAN CROCODILIAN SOFT PALATE. “The soft palate has evolved from the crocodilian basihyal valve, a significant gular fold that archers across the pterygoids immediately in front of the internal choana allowing crocodilians to have efficient respiratory function during submerged aquatic conditions.” http://www.wjgnet.com/esps/DownLoadFile.aspx?Type=Digital&SubType=2&DOI=10.5319%2Fwjo.v6.i2.33&FilePath=Pub%5C10.5319%5Cv6%5Ci2%5CWJO-6-33.doc View in LinkedIn

STRATEGIC ACCUMULATION. "Sensory discrimination and coordinated action enable plants, especially their roots, to secure territories for optimal plant survival and reproduction." http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcimb.2013.00044/full View in LinkedIn

ROOT SWARM INTELLIGENCE. "Roots discriminate self from non-self roots and they are also capable of kin recognition and swarm intelligence." http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcimb.2013.00044/full View in LinkedIn

DO PLANTS HAVE SENSES? Historically, these have been assumed to be minimal. Light, water and gravity. But we have been fooled by looking in the mirror. View in LinkedIn

HYBRID FORMATION. "It can be proposed that numerous invasions of ancient roots via bacteria and especially fungi resulted in generation of abundant host-pathogen synapses which transformed later into the symbiotic and, finally, into the auxin-secreting root synapses most active in epithel-like epidermis and endodermis at and around the transition zone." http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcimb.2013.00044/full View in LinkedIn

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CONTROVERSIAL LANGUAGE IN TITLE. “Microorganism and filamentous fungi drive evolution of plant synapses.” Synapses are junctions on animal nerve cells. Plants do not have nerves. This approach provoked a firestorm of conservative reaction, that arguably sent this important new field backwards in time. http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcimb.2013.00044/full View in LinkedIn

CO-EVOLUTION OF THE PARTS. "Roots, vascular systems, and flowers represent relatively late plant innovations and contribute substantially to the complexity of plant bodies after the colonization of land by terrestrial plants. Importantly, all three features are inherently associated with polar auxin transport, underlying their likely co-evolution." http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcimb.2013.00044/full View in LinkedIn

SOCIAL DECEPTION BY PLANTS. "Orchids, such as Ophrys, exemplify plant social deception in plant-animal interactions. They offer no nectar, which is energetically costly to synthesize, but rather attract and seduce male bees with perfect shapes, colors and scents, mimicking female bees ready for copulation." http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcimb.2013.00044/full View in LinkedIn