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These type of organisms -- those that seemingly require a rather narrow window of living conditions -- make me wonder how they have survived through ice ages an
by ballenf 6y ago
These type of organisms -- those that seemingly require a rather narrow window of living conditions -- make me wonder how they have survived through ice ages and such.
I assume this has been something extensively studied and is well-understood in biology or climate science.
- lisper 6y agoThey survived the same way that any other species survives: by finding an ecological niche in which they are better adapted than their competitors. That niche doesn't have to be very big, it just has to be big enough. During the ice age, the niche for this flower was in the tropics somewhere.