The appearance of the first animals in the late Ediacaran period was followed by a period of slow diversification. A study in Nature Ecology & Evolution concludes that widespread asexual reproduction via stolon probably constrained early animal evolution. #evosky #paleosky 🧪
The appearance of the first animals in the late Ediacaran period was followed by a period of relatively slow diversification. Here the authors show that asexual stoloniferous reproduction would have enabled co-existence of suboptimal interspecific competitors and constrained diversification.
