genera

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AGARICS The names of the genera are all derived from Greek and Latin words.

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  • With respect to the evolution of new genera, consider just the Hawaiian honeycreepers, which in about 3 1 / 2 million years, from a single colonization event, evolved about 50 new species, 22 new genera, all in one entirely new (sub) family, the Drepanidinae. —  RealClimate
  • The authors do not discuss the evolution of plants and fungi, the significance of Mayr's population thinking, or various views about the biogeographical origin of species (as a plant systematist, I don't think the divisions between species and genera are as clear-cut as one of Cobb's contributors, echoing the Platonism of Whitehead, seems to suggest).
  • "… Every paleontologist knows that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of family appear in the record suddenly and are not led up to by known, gradual, completely continuous transitional sequences." —  California Literary Review
  • Included within these newly identified and named genera are the majority of African species.
  • I set myself the task of searching across the full spectrum of biodiversity for all of the names of all of the genera, and I only encountered two names where there were zero people working. —  SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
 

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