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DIOECIOUS ANGIOSPERMS. "The transition from monoecy to dioecy in plants is an important event in the evolution of angiosperms, with dioecious species occurring in half of all plant families but representing only 6–7% of all species." Angiosperm success as a group is remarkable. https://lnkd.in/e8CyHKf View in LinkedIn

NEW HUMANS. “It is clear that viruses have had a major impact on the origin, evolution, and diversification of all life on this planet including the primates and including the hominids and therefore it is not difficult to propose that this phenomena could continue and could lead to the creation of a new lineage of humans, a new species of humans.” https://lnkd.in/guhpmyR View in LinkedIn

AVOIDANCE OF INBREEDING. "Among the sexual strategies to avoid inbreeding in flowering plants, sexual dimorphism promotes the evolution of dioecy." https://lnkd.in/e8CyHKf View in LinkedIn

INCOMPLETE JOURNEY. “Viruses have clearly shaped our basic blueprint and are not through with us yet. Viruses are attempting to modify our species in a way that could lead to new human beings.” https://lnkd.in/guhpmyR View in LinkedIn

SPECIAL CASE OF THE FIG. "Mechanisms ensuring the evolutionary stability of dioecious fig–pollinator mutualisms, in which female fig trees engage in pollination by deceit resulting in zero reproductive success of pollinators that visit them, are poorly understood." https://lnkd.in/e8CyHKf View in LinkedIn

SEX RATIO SKEW. "Data suggest that males will generally be less sensitive to increased aridity than co-occurring females and, consequently, extreme male-biased sex ratios are possible in a significant number of populations. The effects of male-biased sex ratios are likely to cascade to dependent community members, especially those that are specialized on one sex." https://lnkd.in/e_imfDq View in LinkedIn

VULNERABILITIES. "Dioecious species may be especially vulnerable to climate change given that they often exhibit spatial segregation of the sexes, reinforced by physiological and morphological specialization of each sex to different microhabitats. In dimorphic species, the overexpression of a trait by one gender versus the other may become suppressed in future climates." https://lnkd.in/e_imfDq View in LinkedIn

BRYOPHYTE REPRODUCTION. "Roughly half of the species of bryophytes have separate sexes (dioecious) and half are hermaphroditic (monoecious). This variation has major consequences for the ecology and evolution of the different species." https://lnkd.in/e45yqVZ View in LinkedIn

US military agency invests $100m in genetic extinction technologies. Super-bad idea. View in LinkedIn

OPTIONS. "Contrasting with separate-sexed animals, simultaneous hermaphrodites display unique reproductive strategies as they are male and female at the same time. Simultaneous hermaphrodites that copulate unilaterally, for instance, make a decision to mate as a male or female." https://lnkd.in/eUYgBrA View in LinkedIn