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There's no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically) (2021)
Dendronization – Evolving into a tree-like morphology. (In the style of “carcinization”.) From ‘dendro’, the ancient Greek root for tree.
Yep – knock out a couple of genes that control flower development and change the light levels to mimic summer, and researchers found that Arabidopsis – rock cress, a distinctly herbaceous plant used as a model organism – grows a woody stem never otherwise seen in the species. Acknowledge that all of our categories are weird and a little arbitrary Look wistfully of pictures of Welwitschia Send a fruit basket to your local botanist/plant evolutionary biologist for putting up with this, or become one yourself While natural selection is commonly thought to simply be an ongoing process with no “goals” or “end points”, most scientists believe that life peaked at Welwitschia.
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