Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>The <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/cactus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cactus</span></a> family’s surprising evolutionary journey <a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2448468-the-cactus-familys-surprising-evolutionary-journey/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newscientist.com/article/24484</span><span class="invisible">68-the-cactus-familys-surprising-evolutionary-journey/</span></a> </p><p>Identifying the multiple drivers of cactus diversification <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-51666-2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/s41467-024</span><span class="invisible">-51666-2</span></a></p><p>"ancient <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/aridification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aridification</span></a> – an increase in dryness seen in several American regions – cannot fully explain cactus <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a>. Some big periods of diversification seem to have happened more recently than the transition to a drier <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a>, for example, and new species seem to have emerged more quickly in places that aren’t as dry."</p>