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Darwin’s giant daisies and evolution

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DIG DEEPER at Norwegian SciTech News:
https://norwegianscitechnews.com/2022/08/darwins-giant-daisies-and-evolution/

How animals and plants adapt to the environment is often particularly evident on islands. Now Darwin’s giant daisies are helping researchers understand a little more about how these plants actually go about adapting.

Naturalists Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin both presented the theory of evolution at the same time in 1858. They thus changed both the course of biology and how we understand the natural world around us.

Evolution is about how species change over time with the help of genetics, but also about how new species are created. Without evolution we would not exist, because species would not be able to adapt to changes in the environment.

Now researchers have gained greater insight into how evolution takes place, and how several species have evolved from a single species. They have discovered what the ancestors of several of today’s species were like.

The research group tackled the task by studying trees that Darwin came upon during his trip to the Galapagos Islands in 1835.

“We’ve found irrefutable evidence of the island syndrome in the genes of Darwin’s giant daisies,” says José Cerca, a researcher in NTNU’s Department of Natural History at the NTNU University Museum.

DIG DEEPER at Norwegian SciTech News:
https://norwegianscitechnews.com/2022/08/darwins-giant-daisies-and-evolution/
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