Comment on Easter diagram
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoIsn’t it almost universal that as long as resources are plentiful, organisms drift toward larger sizes?
Comment on Easter diagram
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoIsn’t it almost universal that as long as resources are plentiful, organisms drift toward larger sizes?
ZMoney@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Not always, usually it’s an evolutionary arms race though. Recent paper I thought was really cool suggests the initial jump from single to multicellular happened because of a snowball Earth which changed the water temperature and therefore viscosity, making larger size equate to more efficient swimming.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/716634