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REPEAT EVOLUTIONS. "Dioecy is considered by Charlesworth and Guttman (1999) to have evolved more than 100 times to account for the 160 plant families which include dioecious species." https://lnkd.in/gb3zS32 View in LinkedIn

“MEDICAL PRACTICE and health protocols improved after the pandemic. While medical practice was still outlawed for those not affiliated with the Church, more people turned to independent practitioners, allowing exploration into treatments extending beyond Church doctrine. Governments followed suit with many European governments creating efficient public health protocols.” https://lnkd.in/gyBNmBb View in LinkedIn

ANGIOSPERM EVOLUTION. "It is tempting to speculate that the first angiosperms were dioecious and that this state has then evolved into the hermaphrodites which dominate the present flora and which have 'reverted' to generate the unisexual species." https://lnkd.in/gb3zS32 View in LinkedIn

FEUDALISM DECLINES. “In the decades following the pandemic, Europe experienced significant economic, social, scientific, and religious changes. Increased wages empowered peasants, causing serfdom to disappear in many places, triggering the decline of manorialism. The demand for labor was so high it threatened manorial holdings. Serfs, no longer tied to one landlord, could easily leave for another who would hire them.” https://lnkd.in/gyBNmBb View in LinkedIn

FIRST ANGIOSPERM. "Recent sequencing analyses suggest strongly that Amborella trichopoda, an evergreen dioecious shrub endemic to New Caledonia, is the first branch of angiosperm evolution." https://lnkd.in/gb3zS32 View in LinkedIn

FAMILY TREE RECONSTRUCTIONS. "Many attempts have been made, using morphological and molecular systematics, to reconstruct the early evolutionary history of the 250 000 or so species of flowering plants." https://lnkd.in/gb3zS32 View in LinkedIn

"DISTYLY has probably arisen to promote pollen dispersal (and therefore outcrossing) and is often associated with self incompatibility. Specialization of one type for maleness and the other for femaleness may progress to full dioecy." https://lnkd.in/gb3zS32 View in LinkedIn

“HETEROSTYLY is a unique form of polymorphism and herkogamy in flowers. In a heterostylous species, two or three morphological types of flowers, termed "morphs", exist in the population. On each individual plant, all flowers share the same morph. The flower morphs differ in the lengths of the pistil and stamens, and these traits are not continuous.“ https://lnkd.in/dBgeGam View in LinkedIn

AN EXAMPLE. "One of the most interesting examples is that of the wasp pollinated dioecious figs (Ficus spp.) of tropical rain forests. The dioecious species are usually found in the understorey whereas monoecious species inhabit the canopy. The dioecious figs have clearly evolved from monoecious species but the mechanism itself is not clear." https://lnkd.in/gb3zS32 View in LinkedIn

A NUANCED ROAD. "Although monoecy is a developmental modification rather than a genetic separation as is the case for dioecy, a monoecious population could evolve into a dioecious one through a series of mutations which alter the ratio of male to female flowers." https://lnkd.in/gb3zS32 View in LinkedIn