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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

SHIFT TO LAND. "It is assumed that land plants evolved from algae, but the initial invasion of dry and rocky land was probably possible only through an alliance of ancient algae and fungi. Only alliances of fungi, algae, and bacteria could allow for the shift from ocean to hostile land environments, where progressive transformation led to emergence of fertile life-supporting land." http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcimb.2013.00044/full View in LinkedIn

PLANT EVOLUTION INCLUDED "high phenotypic plasticity, lateral gene transfer, and an abundant record of symbiosis." http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcimb.2013.00044/full View in LinkedIn

DRY NOSE TYPES. “In most haplorhines, there is a considerable reduction of their snout length when compared to strepsirrhines. There is one more important anatomical distinction between these two subOrders of primates that resides within the nasal fossa and that is an absence of a transverse lamina in haplorhines, which translates in them not having a bony partition separating the respiratory and olfactory region within the nasal cavity proper.” http://www.wjgnet.com/esps/DownLoadFile.aspx?Type=Digital&SubType=2&DOI=10.5319%2Fwjo.v6.i2.33&FilePath=Pub%5C10.5319%5Cv6%5Ci2%5CWJO-6-33.doc View in LinkedIn

INDEPENDENT EVOLUTIONARY PATH. "During higher plant evolution, plants drastically increased the complexity of their bodies, with recent angiosperms representing the most evolved plants. It seems that the first roots, shoots, and leaves evolved together with the evolution of the first xylem and phloem elements, representing the vascular system. Roots and shoots, as well as vascular elements, followed an independent evolutionary path in vascular plants." http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcimb.2013.00044/full View in LinkedIn

PRIMATE NOSE TYPES. “The word haplorhine means “dry nose” whereas strepsirrhine means “wet nose”. As a result, strepsirrhine primates exhibit wet noses similarly to dogs and cats. Haplorhine primates have a fused frontal bone suture as well as a fused mandibular symphysis.” http://www.wjgnet.com/esps/DownLoadFile.aspx?Type=Digital&SubType=2&DOI=10.5319%2Fwjo.v6.i2.33&FilePath=Pub%5C10.5319%5Cv6%5Ci2%5CWJO-6-33.doc View in LinkedIn

TRUE FOR ALL LIFE FORMS. "The logic of biological evolution is related to the inherently invasive, infective, and collaborative nature of viruses, microorganisms, and other organismic units of prokaryotic life." http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcimb.2013.00044/full View in LinkedIn

CLASSIFIED BY NOSES. “The living primates (which include humans) are taxonomically classified in two suborders: Strepsirrhini and Haplorhini, the latter group includes our human ancestors. Through the course of primate evolution, profound changes in the nasal fossa allow one to differentiate the haplorhines from strepsirrhines and all other mammals.” http://www.wjgnet.com/esps/DownLoadFile.aspx?Type=Digital&SubType=2&DOI=10.5319%2Fwjo.v6.i2.33&FilePath=Pub%5C10.5319%5Cv6%5Ci2%5CWJO-6-33.doc View in LinkedIn

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FUNCTIONAL SEPARATION. “The primary nose fully opens behind a virtual, coronal plane through the anterior palatine canal, into both the respiratory and olfactory noses. Respiratory and olfactory noses are separated from each other by the transverse lamina, a thin, bony axial structure.” http://www.wjgnet.com/esps/DownLoadFile.aspx?Type=Digital&SubType=2&DOI=10.5319%2Fwjo.v6.i2.33&FilePath=Pub%5C10.5319%5Cv6%5Ci2%5CWJO-6-33.doc View in LinkedIn