Fire-adapted traits of Pinus arose in the fiery Cretaceous.

Abstract excerpt

• The mapping of functional traits onto chronograms is an emerging approach for the identification of how agents of natural selection have shaped the evolution of organisms. Recent research has reported fire-dependent traits appearing among flowering plants from 60 million yr ago (Ma). Although there are many records of fossil charcoal in the Cretaceous (65-145 Ma), evidence of fire-dependent traits evolving in...

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• Adaptation, Biological
• Environment
• Fires
• Fossils
• Magnoliopsida
• Oxygen