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Not so ancient: Misclassification of alpine plants biases the dating of the evolution of alpine biota in the Himalaya-Tibet Orogen
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Ding et al. (Science 2020) proposed that the extant lineages of the alpine flora of the Tibet Himalaya Hengduan region emerged by the early Oligocene. We argue that these results are based on misclassifying high montane taxa as alpine and that their data support alpine habitats only at about 7.5 mio years before present.
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https://doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/s9rfh
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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences
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Published: 2021-12-17 10:16
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