The climate, evolving, changes the land.
Over time, entire populations living in northern climates evolved lighter skin tones than those individuals living in areas with higher levels of sunlight.
In the 1800s, an American zoologist named Joel Allen posited that animals in cold climates evolved to have shorter appendages (limbs, ears, and tails) than those in hot climates, in order to minimize surface area and thereby minimize heat loss.
Sometime during the Oligocene Epoch (33.9 million to 23 million years ago), certain of the angiosperms (grasses and dicotyledonous plants) of mainly tropical climates evolved a CO2-fixation system that acted ahead of the Calvin-Benson cycle.
Meanwhile, bovids adapted to cold climates evolved on the northern continents; most notable among these bovids were members of the subfamily Caprinae (goats, sheep, goat antelopes, and musk oxen), bovines (yak, bison, and the aurochs, the ancestor of domestic cattle), and the gazelle tribe (Antilopini; e.g., the Mongolian gazelle).
Phylogenetic studies suggest that B. distachyon diverged from the core Pooideae approximately 35 million years ago [ 2] while key Pooideae-specific adaptations to cold climates evolved during the Eocene-Oligocene cooling period (34 26 Mya), after the B. distachyon-core Pooideae split [ 9].
Gillman says that if plants in warmer climates evolve more quickly, mammals living there will also have to speed up their evolution to keep pace with their food's rapidly adapting defenses.
With climate models, we can play "what-if scenarios" and input either current conditions or hypothetical conditions and watch the Earth's climate evolve within the simulation.
However, once the organization is up and operational, the managers who conduct the day-to-day activities often do not perceive the value of business architecture to address the pressures for change as the organization and business climate evolve.
We can never go back and make observations that were missed, but we can still improve knowledge of how the climate has evolved, even in recent post-20055) data-rich (Argo) times.
