IMPACT ON INSECTS. “Moreover, plant activities appear to have caused rates of evolution in terrestrial animals to accelerate. Late Palaeozoic insect and tetrapod faunas diversified together with terrestrial plants, and enhanced burial of organic carbon raised global oxygen levels, fuelling a spectacular radiation of insect gigantism.”
http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/96/3/345.full.pdf
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022