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Re: [Aroid-l] Holes
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From: hermine <hermine at endangeredspecies.com>
on 2012.03.01 at 02:34:58(22633)
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>I am not sure what you mean by "created." We may suppose that the
>primeval leaf was linear, like the branches of Equisetum or the
>needles of a conifer (think also of Lycopodium and Araucaria), and
>that the next evolutionary step was a broadening, so as to capture
>more sun. All the variations in leaves we see are developments in
>response to the requirements of different niches. The
>juvenile-stage leaves of a Monstera probably approximate the
>ancestral leaves, in parallel with the way various organisms'
>embryonic development hints at their evolutionary stages.
I always thought that wind passage had something to do with it as a
FAR better idea than Banana foliage, which shreds HIDEOUSLY in the
wind. But ultimately I feel this is a question like "Who made G-d?".
hermine
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ps why is broccoli like that?
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