mammalian evolution

Agriculture and processed food-driven evolution of small mammals

Posted on May 6, 2022

Although the agricultural practice is an anthropogenic evolutional event by itself, by the selection and creation of new plant cultivars and animal breeds, is also a major factor in the evolution of non-targeted organisms. As it offers new sources of potential food, previously not available or in insufficient quantities, it laid to the emergence of new species, adapted to these new food sources. More or less, along with the abundance of processed food, a variety of behavioral, physiological and anatomical adaptations gradually caused the evolution of new species. The current paper represents the description of several such species, along with the major adaptive mechanisms, found in them.

Biodiversity of Okheania

Posted on April 14, 2022

The world of Okheania is a fabulous environment, largely shaped by gigantic trees, forming an evergreen dense surface with their crowns and a dark, hostile space around the trunks, similar to the Ocean’s depth and simply named “the profundity”. This green “ocean” developed on Earth after the sowing of the megatrees, initially developed in laboratory conditions to cope with the pollution of anthropogenic origin. As such, it forms a unique ecosystem with several well-defined biotopes and a flourishing variety of lifeforms. The dominant organismal group is that of Order Ichthymammalia, descendants of the common mammals that underwent extensive evolution and currently resemble in many ways the fishes that previously lived on Earth. Uniquely, the present ichtymammals evolved in a convergent way to these fishes and many similarities could be established between these new species and the now extinct fishes of the past.