ANACHRONISTIC ADAPTATIONS. “A good example is the large, hard-shelled, gourd-type fruit of the calabash (Crescentia) tree, which has been posited as an ‘anachronistic’ adaptation for seed dispersal by gomphotheres, large, elephant-like mammals that went extinct over 10,000 years ago.”
https://evolution-outreach.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s12052-014-0012-5
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022