These Ferns Can “Evolve Backward”, Challenging Our Assumptions About Plant Evolution
We tend to call back ofevolutionas a one - mode process : simpler beings gradually advancing to become more advanced lifeforms with no way for a backward pace . However , as new research has demonstrated , this is n’t needs the case . “ organic evolution has no finish line . There is no end end , no last state , ” write Jacob Suissa , Assistant Professor of Plant Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee , for a piece inThe Conversation ....