Saturday 29 October 2022

How giant whales came from a tiny grandfather



Image courtesy of Terry Howard, CC BY-SA 3.0). .

Joel Kontinen 

 Evolution answers the question of how the giant whales and the tiny bumblebee bat could come from the same forefathers.

 As science puts it, how mammals ”evolved this level of variation has been a persistent question, with much debate being focused  around the timing and tempo of evolutionary change.” 

So, they do not know the answer, but they speculate that certain lifestyles led to faster change,

 Source:

Vignieri, Sacha 2022, Becoming diverse, Science 28 October,