Joel Kontinen
Biologists and
physiologists have long been interested in the suite of adaptations associated
with the extreme stature of the giraffe. Their unusual anatomy is
thought to provide various selective advantages, as was though by Lamarck and
Darwin. .
The okapi (Okapia johnstoni) is a living fossil and the only other extant member of the Giraffidae family and provides a useful point of genomic comparison, but they did not grow as tall as giraffes, and nothing in this present discourse says that the giraffe caught its elevated structure mutations or other evolutionary ways.
Liu., Chang et al, 2021. A towering genome: Experimentally validated adaptations to high blood pressure and extreme stature in the giraffe Science Advances . 7, no. 12, eabe9459.
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