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"GENOME DOUBLING occurs when an organism mistakenly gains an extra copy of every one of its genes during the cell division that occurs as part of sexual reproduction. The extra genetic material gives genome doubled organisms the potential to evolve new traits that can provide a competitive advantage." https://lnkd.in/e27U-gk View in LinkedIn

SEX. "Flowers evolved for sex." https://lnkd.in/euP3eDr View in LinkedIn

DOMINANT PLANTS. "Our world is an angiosperm world. The roughly 350,000 known species of flowering plants make up about 90% of all living plant species. Without them, we would have none of our major crops including those used to feed livestock, and one of the most important carbon sinks that mop up our carbon dioxide emissions would be missing." https://lnkd.in/e27U-gk View in LinkedIn

SUDDEN APPEARANCE of flowering plants. “The abrupt origin and rapid diversification of the flowering plants during the Cretaceous has long been considered an “abominable mystery.” https://lnkd.in/gFWYaxX View in LinkedIn

SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS. "No one group of observers has a monopoly on truth, and the history of western science makes it quite clear that the scientific truths of today will, in ever-decreasing intervals of time, constitute the bulk of tomorrow's discarded hypotheses and superseded knowledge." https://lnkd.in/dvpgYsT View in LinkedIn

"GREGORY BATESON, has argued "that relationships should be used as a basis for all definitions...Anything...should be defined not by what it is in itself, but by its relations to other things" https://lnkd.in/dvpgYsT View in LinkedIn

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RELATIONAL WORLD. "It is as well to consider that scientists now also understand that, at a fundamental level, certain phenomena are best understood not as being composed of isolated entities that can be studied as such, but rather they can better be understood by means of the influence they have on other phenomena. In other words, by means of their systemic relationships, outside of which they in fact cease to be definable." https://lnkd.in/dvpgYsT View in LinkedIn

VIRAL AND BACTERIAL GENE DRIVERS. "Similar to the emergence and evolution of eukaryotic cells, evolution of land plants was also shaped and driven by infective and symbiotic microorganisms. These microorganisms are the driving force behind the evolution of plant synapses and other neuronal aspects of higher plants; this is especially pronounced in the root apices." http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcimb.2013.00044/full View in LinkedIn