(Source: University System of Ohio) Plants Keep Spines Long After Their Grazer Went Extinct Chemical analysis shows that spiny plants of Madagascar evolved protection from animals that have since gone extinct. Date: 1/30/2013 12:00:00 AM By: Greg Hand Phone: (513) 556-1822 Evidence for evolution lasts long after the cause for evolution disappears. That is one of the conclusions reached in a new paper by Brooke E. Crowley of University of Cincinnati and Laurie R. Godfrey of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Their paper, "Why all those spines? Anachronistic defenses in the Didiereoideae against now-extinct lemurs," was published Tuesday, Jan. 29, by the South...
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